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100 1 $aCasati, Roberto,$d1961-
240 10 $aScoperta dell'ombra.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe shadow club :$bthe greatest mystery in the universe--shadows--and the thinkers who unlocked their secrets /$cRoberto Casati ; translated from the Italian by Abigail Asher.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf :$bDistributed by Random House,$c2003.
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index.
505 0 $aThe heart of shadow -- Shadows in the sky -- The century of shadow -- Shadow visions -- The discovery of shadow.
520 $aA remarkable exploration of how shadows have forever fascinated us: their extraordinary hold on our fears and imagination; their importance to astronomers, scientists, philosophers, and artists; their influence on myth and religious beliefs. What's stranger than a shadow? Shadows are messengers from the world of darkness, images that we can't shake off, black spots that have troubled our sleep through the ages. And yet shadows have been the key to unlocking some of our toughest scientific problems: the reason for eclipses, the distances between planets, the shape and size of the earth, the structure of the solar system, the nature of time itself. In this unique study-combining history, science, and anthropology-Roberto Casati discusses the famous and the obscure who, armed with imagination and creativity, struggled with the concept of shadow and provided us with explanations of and uses for our constant companion. Among those who were part of this "shadow club" were Eratosthenes and Galileo, ancient Arab astrono-mers and modern mathematicians, classical Greek painters and Leonardo da Vinci. And now, the name Casati-who has given us the first book devoted to the subject-can be added. Roberto Casati was born in Milan in 1961. A research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, he lives in Paris and works at the Institut Nicod, a laboratory of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and of the Ecole Normales. 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.
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