Catching the Light
The Entwined History of Light and Mind
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:5th Oct '95
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
`This is a most persuasive book on a most important subject. I recommend it highly.' Saul Bellow With scholarship and clarity, Arthur Zajonc takes us on an epic journey into scientific history. Yet Catching the Light is not just about science; it is a book of ideas that blends science with literature, religion, philosophy, and morality and tries to answer the question that has mystified humanity from pre-history to the present day: what is light?
`a multi-levelled history about virtually everything that human beings have thought about light and seeing in the last three thousand years... ...I have not enjoyed a book so much for a long time. Oliver Sacks
`a small gem of a book' James Gleik, Washington Post
ISBN: 9780195095753
Dimensions: 203mm x 136mm x 20mm
Weight: 331g
400 pages