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Fine in Very Good jacket. Fine in Very Good jacket White transparent dustjacket. Light wrinkling to jacket, with a few short closed tears to bottom edge of jacket on rear cover.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, fine in fine white dj. Giftable. Discusses the famous and the obscure who, armed with imagination and creativity, struggled with the concept of shadow and provided us with explanations and uses for our constant companion. 230pp. Appendix, Bibliographic Notes, Index of Names.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First American edition. Translated from the Italian by Abigail Asher. Illustrated. Owner notes on the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper. Author photo laid in.
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New. 0375407278. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED 240 pages. "A remarkable exploration of how shadows have forever fascinated us: their extraordinary hold on our fears and imagination; their importance to astronomers, scientists, philosophers, and artists; their influence on myth and religious beliefs. What's stranger than a shadow? Shadows are messengers from the world of darkness, images that we can't shake off, black spots that have troubled our sleep through the ages. And yet shadows have been the key to unlocking some of our toughest scientific problems: the reason for eclipses, the distances between planets, the shape and size of the earth, the structure of the solar system, the nature of time itself. In this unique study-combining history, science, and anthropology-Roberto Casati discusses the famous and the obscure who, armed with imagination and creativity, struggled with the concept of shadow and provided us with explanations of and uses for our constant companion. Among those who were part of this 'shadow club' were Eratosthenes and Galileo, ancient Arab astrono-mers and modern mathematicians, classical Greek painters and Leonardo da Vinci. And now, the name Casati-who has given us the first book devoted to the subject-can be added."--with a bonus offer--
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As New in As New jacket. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (2003). First American edition. First printing. Hardbound. As New in an as-new dust jacket. A pristine unread copy. Nonfiction (sale).
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As New in As New jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7æ-9æ" tall. Hardcover, white boards and dust-jacket lettered in dark gray. 230 pages. Appendix, Bibliographic Notes, Index of Names. Translated from the Italian by Abigail Asher. First American edition, first printing. The science of shadows from the work of ancient astronomers, through Galileo and da Vinci, to the present day, Casati's is the first book to address the subject and he does it brilliantly. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Dust-jacket now in new Brodart cover. As new in an as new dust-jacket.
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Used: good. Size: 6x0x9; Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes ArtGood condition, some minor wear to edges and dustjacket, bumped tips, prompt shipping with tracking.