Книга: Philip Ball «Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen»
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Производитель: "The Bodley Head" If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. But there`s no need to feel guilty. Impulses like these have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility: it points to realms beyond our senses, serves as a receptacle for fears and dreams, and hints at worlds where other rules apply. Invisibility is a mighty power and a terrible curse, a sexual promise, a spiritual condition. This is a history of humanity`s turbulent relationship with the invisible. It takes on the myths and morals of Plato, the occult obsessions of the Middle Ages, the trickeries and illusions of stage magic, the auras and ethers of Victorian physics, military strategies to camouflage armies and ships and the discovery of invisibly small worlds. From the medieval to the cutting-edge, fairy tales to telecommunications, from beliefs about the supernatural to the discovery of dark energy,... ISBN:9781847922892, 978-1-847-92289-2 Издательство: "The Bodley Head" (2014)
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Philip Ball
Philip Ball (born 1962) is an English
"Critical Mass"
Ball's 2004 book "Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another" examines a wide range of topics including the
The book was awarded
Bibliography
*"The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science" (2006), ISBN 0-434-01134-7
*"Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry" (2005), ISBN 0-85404-674-7
*"Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another" (2004), ISBN 0-434-01135-5
*"The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements" (2002), ISBN 0-19-284100-9 (republished as "The Elements: A Very Short Introduction")
*"Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour" (2001), ISBN 0-670-89346-3
*"Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules" (2001), ISBN 0-19-280214-3 (republished as "Molecules: A Very Short Introduction")
*"H2O: A Biography of Water" (1999), ISBN 0-297-64314-2 (published in the U.S. as "Life's Matrix")
*"The Self-made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature" (1999), ISBN 0-19-850244-3
*"Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century" (1997), ISBN 0-691-02733-1
*"Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier" (1994), ISBN 0-691-00058-1
External links
* [http://www.philipball.com Philip Ball Homepage]
Источник: Philip Ball
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