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Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind (1993)

de Arthur Zajonc

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What is light? From the glories of heaven to the fires of hell, no question has so fascinated, so mystified, so captivated the human imagination through the centuries as the wondrous powers of light. Now, in this extraordinary and brilliant book, an experimental physicist invites us to take part in a dazzling and unforgettable quest - an inquiry into the fundamental nature of light in our history, our world, and our lives. A needle dropped on the floor may be in our. Field of vision but remain unseen. How - in a flash of recognition - do we perceive it? Consider the true story, set down here in compelling detail, of the man, blind from early infancy, whose eyes were surgically repaired and yet still could not see. Or the fact that the ancient Greeks lacked words for green and blue and Homer looked out on a "wine-dark" sea: What is the puzzling phenomenon of Greek color vision? And, even more puzzling, what does light look like if. There is no object to reflect it? In tracing the history of light, Arthur Zajonc presents an intriguing and dramatic look at the evolution of knowledge and the development of the human mind itself. It is a journey that leads from the temples of ancient cultures to the experiences of modern mystics, from the artistic theories of the Renaissance masters to the luminous paintings of Kandinsky, from the scientific perspectives of Newton and Faraday to the revolutionary ideas. Of thinkers such as Einstein, Planck, and Bohr. With rare clarity and an unmatched lyricism, Zajonc illuminates the profound implications of rainbow and candle, prism and mirror, as well as the paradoxes of quantum theory. He explores the vital connection between the outer light of nature and the inner light of the human spirit. And he challenges our intellect and our imagination to reach beyond ourselves, to shape new perceptions, and even to comprehend the divine. From. Biblical times to the world of modern optics, Catching the Light is a brilliant synthesis of history, science, religion, and art that brings together the multifaceted strands of human experience to light the way to a new understanding of ourselves and our cosmos.… (mais)
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In tracing the history of light, the author presents an intriguing and dramatic look at the evolution of knowledge and the development of the human mind itself. It is a journey that leads from the temples of ancient cultures to the experience of modern mystics, from the artistic theories of the Renaissance masters to the luminous paintings of Kandinsky, from the scientific perspectives of Newton and Faraday to the revolutionary ideas of thinkers such as Einstein, Planck, and Bohr.
  PendleHillLibrary | Jun 17, 2021 |
ATRAPANDO LA LUZ

Libro que relata la necesidad de aprender algo sobre lo que no sabemos, algo tan esencial y que utilizamos diariamente en nuestro vivir, durante toda le existencia de la humanidad. pero ni siquera se puede probar científicamente ¿que es la LUZ?.

Atrapando la Luz es una obra extraordinaria, una historia de múltiples niveles acerca de prácticamente todo lo que los seres humanos han pensado sobre la luz y la visión en los últimos tres mil años.

Describe, contrasta y reúne las intuiciones y los planteamientos de la física y la psicología, de las matemáticas y la intuición, de la ciencia y el arte, y muestra que bajo sus diferencias son planteamientos complementarios, Zajonc maneja su enorme erudición con tal gracia, tal soltura y naturalidad, que sólo se siente gozo y excitación mientras se lee este libro.
OLIVER SACKS, M.D.

Atrapando la Luz es un logro insólito, un genuino tour de force. Es una visión audaz, la urdimbre con la cual se tejen las revoluciones. Zajonc escribe de modo penetrante, con ternura, espiritualmente,
sobre la ciencia. Conocer la naturaleza de la luz es lo mismo que despertar, que conocernos
y conocer el mundo de una manera nueva.
LARRY DOSSEY, M.D.

Sobre el Autor:

Arthur Guy Zajonc (Boston, Massachusetts, 11 de octubre de 1949) es físico y autor de varios libros relacionados con la ciencia, la mente y el espíritu; uno de ellos se basa en conversaciones sobre mecánica cuántica con el Dalái lama. Zajonc ha sido profesor en el Amherst College desde 1978 y secretario general de la Sociedad Antroposófica americana. En enero de 2012 llegó a ser presidente del Mind and Life Institute.

Zajonc recibió un B.S. en ingeniería física de la Universidad de Míchigan en 1971. También recibió un M.S. (1973) y un Ph.D. (1976) en física de la misma universidad. De 1976 a 1978 fue investigador asociado en el Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics de la Universidad de Colorado y del Instituto Nacional de Estándares y Tecnología, Boulder, Colorado.

Zajonc fue profesor adjunto de física en el Amherst College en 1978, siendo promovido a profesor asociado en 1984 y a profesor a tiempo completo en 1991. En 2006 llegó a ser profesor del Andrew W. Mellon en Amherst. Se retiró de este puesto en 2011 y ahora es profesor emérito del Andrew W. Mellon en el Amherst College.1
  FundacionRosacruz | Feb 10, 2018 |
Zajonc tells us that human cognition developed along with investigations into the nature of Light. The human mind began in wonder, then evolved through poetry to philosophy and science (and then ending up somewhere else...)

Like a blind man recovering his sight—confounded by peculiar new shapes and colors—we need the right mind in order to see with understanding. Catching the Light traces a line from Plato’s Timaeus through Robert Grosseteste and Nicholas of Cusa to Galileo, Descartes and Newton, as science became the domain of mathematics. Definitive knowledge proved elusive, however. Zajonc gives full play to Goethe’s rebuttal to Newtonian mechanics (with a curious detour past Rudolph Steiner) as an early step in reclaiming wonder against the encroachment of scientism and, in the last pages—with the insights of Planck and Einstein―science again finds poetic expression in quantum indeterminacy and the ineffability of light. (Einstein acknowledged the philosopher’s Forms in recognizing that 'the human mind has first to construct forms independently before we can find them in things.' Alas, poor Albert found it hard to admit that light could be both particle and wave.) A genuine pleasure to read, Catching the Light is itself an example of the wonder and poetry inherent in the scientific enterprise. ( )
  HectorSwell | Dec 4, 2015 |
Catching the Light traces the evolution of human understanding through our interpretation of light, as it developed from the mythical-spiritual to the mathematic-mechanical to quantum indeterminacy. Plato, Goethe, and Einstein emerge as the most emblematic thinkers in Zajonc’s telling, so you know he’s on to something.

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  MusicalGlass | Nov 20, 2015 |
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If the light rises in the Sky of the heart … and, in the utterly pure inner man attains the brightness of the sun or of many suns … then his heart is nothing but light, his subtle body is light, his material covering is light, his hearing, his sight, his hand, his exterior, his interior, are nothing but light.

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What is light? From the glories of heaven to the fires of hell, no question has so fascinated, so mystified, so captivated the human imagination through the centuries as the wondrous powers of light. Now, in this extraordinary and brilliant book, an experimental physicist invites us to take part in a dazzling and unforgettable quest - an inquiry into the fundamental nature of light in our history, our world, and our lives. A needle dropped on the floor may be in our. Field of vision but remain unseen. How - in a flash of recognition - do we perceive it? Consider the true story, set down here in compelling detail, of the man, blind from early infancy, whose eyes were surgically repaired and yet still could not see. Or the fact that the ancient Greeks lacked words for green and blue and Homer looked out on a "wine-dark" sea: What is the puzzling phenomenon of Greek color vision? And, even more puzzling, what does light look like if. There is no object to reflect it? In tracing the history of light, Arthur Zajonc presents an intriguing and dramatic look at the evolution of knowledge and the development of the human mind itself. It is a journey that leads from the temples of ancient cultures to the experiences of modern mystics, from the artistic theories of the Renaissance masters to the luminous paintings of Kandinsky, from the scientific perspectives of Newton and Faraday to the revolutionary ideas. Of thinkers such as Einstein, Planck, and Bohr. With rare clarity and an unmatched lyricism, Zajonc illuminates the profound implications of rainbow and candle, prism and mirror, as well as the paradoxes of quantum theory. He explores the vital connection between the outer light of nature and the inner light of the human spirit. And he challenges our intellect and our imagination to reach beyond ourselves, to shape new perceptions, and even to comprehend the divine. From. Biblical times to the world of modern optics, Catching the Light is a brilliant synthesis of history, science, religion, and art that brings together the multifaceted strands of human experience to light the way to a new understanding of ourselves and our cosmos.

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