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The Shadow Club: The Greatest Mystery in the Universe - Shadows - And the Thinkers Who Unlocked Their Secrets - Hardcover
Notes the role of shadows in science, philosophy, art, religion, and other fields, revealing how shadows are related to the discovery of secrets about the universe while profiling the contributions of such thinkers as Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci. 20,000 first printing.
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'An ambitious and dramatic re-evaluation of the place of this elusive, infinitely complex phenomenon . . . A delightful and entertaining collection' -- The Times
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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 École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and of the École 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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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0375407278
- ISBN 13 9780375407277
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages230
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