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Shadows Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time

Paperback • 2004 • English

Shadows Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time

By Roberto Casati

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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ISBN

9780375707117

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

Shadows Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time

Format

Paperback

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