Six facets of light
Wroe, Ann2016
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Goethe claimed to know what light was. Galileo and Einstein both confessed they didn't. On the essential nature of light, and how it operates, the scientific jury is still out. There is still time, therefore, to listen to painters and poets on the subject. They, after all, spend their lives pursuing light and trying to tie it down. 'Six Facets of Light' is a series of meditations on this most elusive and alluring feature of human life. Set mostly on the Downs and coastline of East Sussex, the most luminous part of England, it interweaves a walker's experiences of light in Nature with the observations, jottings and thoughts of a dozen writers and painters - and some scientists - who have wrestled to define and understand light.
Main title:
Six facets of light / Ann Wroe.
Author:
Wroe, Ann, author
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2016.
Collation:
305 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781910702321 (hbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
1270358