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`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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`a multi-levelled history about virtually everything that human beings have thought about light and seeing in the last three thousand years... ...I have not enjoyed a book so much for a long time. Oliver Sacks
`a small gem of a book' James Gleik, Washington Post

Catching the Light

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 10 May 1995
      ISBN-13 9780195095753
      978-0195095753
      ISBN-10 0195095758
      Also in:
      History of ideas Science & Nature Optical physics Philosophy of science

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      `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?

      Trade Review
      `a multi-levelled history about virtually everything that human beings have thought about light and seeing in the last three thousand years... ...I have not enjoyed a book so much for a long time. Oliver Sacks
      `a small gem of a book' James Gleik, Washington Post

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