Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind - Softcover

Zajonc, Arthur

 
9780195095753: Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0195095758 ISBN 13: 9780195095753
Verlag: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1995

Inhaltsangabe

`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?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Arthur Zajonc is a Fellow of both the Lindisfarne Association and the Fetzer Institute. As a specialist in quantum physics, he has lectured all over the world and is the recipient of a prestigious 1992 Fulbright scholarship.

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With rare clarity and unmatched lyricism, Zajonc illuminates the profound implications of the relationships between the multifaceted strands of human experience and scientific endeavor. A fascinating search into our deepest scientific mystery, Catching the Light is a brilliant synthesis that will both entertain and inform.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0195095758
ISBN 13 
9780195095753
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
402
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