Dust : a history of the small and the invisible
Amato, Joseph Anthony2000
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This text is a meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined. It examines Western civilization, from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to modern nanotechnology and viral diseases.
Main title:
Dust : a history of the small and the invisible / Joseph A. Amato.
Author:
Imprint:
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, c2000.
Collation:
xii, 250p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Previous ed: 2000.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780520218758 (hbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
506176