Shadows: Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time by Casati, Roberto

Shadows: Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375707117)

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Shadows: Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time by Casati, Roberto

Shadows: Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time

$17.00
Shadows: Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time by Casati, Roberto

Shadows: Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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In this original, wide-ranging, and endlessly thought-provoking work of popular nonfiction, a leading science writer uncovers the pervasive presence of shadows in our world.

For Plato, shadows were the symbol of our limitations. For Galileo, they knocked the Earth from the center of the cosmos. They are a source of fear and a symbol of ignorance, and they loom large in art and design, mythology and folklore, physics and metaphysics, and architecture and urban planning. From shadows puppets and the psychology of shadows to the role of shadows in astronomy and the influence of shadows on the architectural profiles of our cities, Roberto Casati awakens our fascination in this tour-de-force of investigation and imagination.

Author: Roberto Casati
ISBN-10: 0375707115
ISBN-13: 9780375707117
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2004
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.22w x 0.66d
By Roberto Casati
By Roberto Casati
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Roberto Casati was born in Milan in 1961. A research director at the Centre National de la R馗h駻che Scientifique, he lives in Paris and works at the Institut Nicod, a laboratory of the ﾉcole des Hautes ﾉtudes en Sciences Sociales and of the ﾉcole Normale. He studies the cognition of strange things--images, colors, sounds, places, holes--and shadows. With Achille Varzi he is the author of Holes and Other Superficialities and Parts and Places.

Abigail Asher (translator) is an editor of art history and other nonfiction books. She has lived and worked in publishing in Italy; she now lives and works in New York City. This is her first book-length translation.

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