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La scoperta dell'ombra

Da Platone a Galileo la storia di un enigma che ha affascinato le grandi menti dell'umanità

by Roberto Casati

2001 230 pages eng

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. T…

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