Seeing dark things : the philosophy of shadows /

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Author / Creator:Sorensen, Roy A.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description:xiii, 310 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6658650
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ISBN:9780195326574 (cloth : alk. paper)
0195326571 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-301) and index.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The eclipse riddle
  • 2. Seeing surfaces
  • 3. The disappearing act
  • 4. Spinning Shadows
  • 5. Berkeley's Shadow
  • 6. Para-reflections
  • 7. Para-refractions
  • 8. Goethe's Colored Shadows
  • 9. Filtows
  • 10. Holes in the light
  • 11. Black and blue
  • 12. Seeing in black and blue
  • 13. We see in the dark
  • 14. Hearing silence
  • References