Shadows影子
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作者： Roberto Casati著
出 版 社： 江西人民出版社
出版时间： 2004-8-1字数：版次：页数： 230印刷时间： 2004/08/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780375707117包装： 平装内容简介
“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
Product Description
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 shadowsinastronomy and the influence of shadows on the architectural profiles ofour cities， Roberto Casati awakens our fascination in this tour-de-force of investigation and imagination。
作者简介：
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 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.
目录
I In the Beginning There Was Shadow
Part One THE HEART OF SHADOW
II Ancient and Modern Shadows
III Shadow Merchants
IV Shadows on the Mind
V Shadow of a Doubt
Part Two SHADOWS IN THE SKY
VI Special Effects
VII Eclipses，Shadow Cones，and Pyamids
VII The Stolen Sundial
IX In the Shadow of the Minaret
X Time Flies Out Through the Hole in a Shadow
Part Three THE CENTURY OF SHADOW
XI Shadow Wars
XII Venus Imitates the Shadow of Diana
XIII Maybe Saturn Devoured His Own Children？
XIV The Speed of Shadow
Part Four SHADOW VISIONS
XV The Shadow Line and the Shadowy Rays
XVI Shadow Webs
XVII Shadow Lessons
XVIII Memories from the Hereafter
FINALE The Discovery of Shadow
Appendix：Shadow News，Shadow Facts
Bibliographic Notes
Acknowledgments
Index of Names
