`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?
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195095753
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 331 g
Dimensions: 203 x 136 x 20 mm
`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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