Shadows(ISBN=) 英文原版

“Casati’s short, lively book . . . will delight.” —San
Francisco Chronicle

“Striking. . . . Shadows succeeds in throwing a
little light on the Dark Side.” —Seed

“A refined chronicle of art and science.” —Booklist

“A blend of scientific inquiry and philosophy. . . .
Casati comes up with some enlightening answers.” —San Diego
Union-Tribune

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.

Roberto Casati was born in Milan in 1961. A research director at
the Centre National de la Réchérche Scientifique, he lives in Paris
and works at the Institut Nicod, a laboratory of the ?cole des
Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales and of the ?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.

In the Beginning There Was Shadow
PartOne  THE HEART OF SHADOW
Ancient and Modern Shadows
Shadow Merchants
Shadows on the Mind
Shadow of a Doubt
Part Two  SHADOWS IN THE SKY
Special Effects
Eclipses, Shadow Cones, and Pyramids
The Stolen Sundial
In the Shadow of the Minaret
Time Flies Out Through the Hole in a Shadow
Part Three  THE CENTURY OF SHADOW
Shadow Wars
Venus Imitates the Shadow of Diana
Maybe Saturn Devoured His Own Children?.
The Speed of Shadow
PartFour  SHADOW VISIONS
The Shadow Line and the Shadowy Rays
Shadow Webs

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