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In 'The Fire within the Eye', scientist and author David Park helps us reconceive the everyday phenomenon of light in profound ways, from spiritual meanings embedded in our culture to the challenging questions put forth by great scientists and philosophers. Park, who is both a gifted teacher and physicist, takes us on a tour through history spanning ancient Greek, Neoplatonic, and Arabic philosophy together with astrology, the metaphysics of Galileo and Kepler, and the role of mathematics and experimentation in modern physics. By creatively synthesizing a broad sweep of historical events and intellectual movements around the theme of light, the author offers readers of all backgrounds a unique perspective on Western civilization itself. Readers will find themselves immersed in lively discussions conducted by a physicist equally at home exploring the invention of perspective by Brunelleschi and Alberti, the writings of Goethe, or the mathematical models inspiring Maxwell's electromagnetic theory.Plato made light the earthly counterpart of the Goodthe early Christians believed the command "Let there be light" unleashed a power that shaped and energized the world. Park follows the connotations of spirituality and power attributed to light in religion, philosophy, art, and literature. At the same time he enables us truly to feel the excitement surrounding scientific discoveries and debates about the nature of light throughout history --Isaac Newton's scientific explanation of color and the raging battles between proponents of light as particles and light as a wave. Park traces the attempts to define light, beginning in the nineteenth century with the proposal that light is a wave motion in a field that unites electricity and magnetism. How this theory was reconciled with the particle theory of light is one of many paradoxes that Park guides us in understanding.Park writes eloquently of the physical, aesthetic, and spiritual aspects of light, making this book an i

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Une histoire de l'utilisation du verre dans l'architecture parisienne du 17e siècle à aujourd'hui (illustrée de très nombreux exemples d'immeubles ou de bâtiments variés) qui montre que l'architecture, c'est aussi l'histoire de la conquête de la lumière, dans les logements, les magasins, les écoles, les ateliers, les passages couverts, etc.

Glass construction --- Windows --- Architecture --- Exhibitions. --- History --- Histoire --- Expositions --- Construction en verre --- Lumière --- Histoire de l'architecture --- Transparence --- Eclairage naturel --- Fenêtre --- Histoire de l'urbanisme --- Constructions en verre --- Éclairage architectural --- Éclairage architectural. --- Architecture - France - Paris - History - 20th century - Exhibitions --- Glass construction - France - Paris - Exhibitions --- Windows - France - Paris - Exhibitions --- Éclairage architectural

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Color photography. --- Color cinematography. --- Color motion pictures. --- Photographic chemistry. --- Image processing. --- Visual perception. --- Picture perception. --- Motion pictures. --- Cinematography --- Photography. --- Images, Photographic. --- Photographs. --- Light. --- Cinéma en couleurs. --- Photographie en couleurs. --- Chimie photographique. --- Traitement d'images. --- Perception visuelle. --- Perception des images. --- Cinéma. --- Photographies. --- Lumière. --- Photographie.

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History of civilization --- Art --- Redon, Odilon --- Ensor, James --- Horta, Victor --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Belgium --- Arts [Belgian ] --- Arts belges --- Belgian arts --- Belgische kunsten --- Kunsten [Belgische ] --- Arts, Belgian. --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Arts --- Avant-garde (Esthétique) --- History --- Political aspects --- Histoire --- Aspect politique --- geschiedenis --- avant-garde --- 1880 - 1914 --- 19de eeuw --- 20ste eeuw --- België --- 7 <493> "18/19" --- 949.3.033 --- 7.035.9 <493> --- -Arts, Belgian --- -Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- -Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Kunst. Ruimtelijke ordening. Architectuur. Sport en spel--België--Hedendaagse Tijd --- Geschiedenis van België: 19de eeuw (1830-1913) --- Art nouveau. Jugendstil--België --- -History --- -Arts --- -Kunst. Ruimtelijke ordening. Architectuur. Sport en spel--België--Hedendaagse Tijd --- -7 <493> "18/19" --- 7.035.9 <493> Art nouveau. Jugendstil--België --- 949.3.033 Geschiedenis van België: 19de eeuw (1830-1913) --- 7 <493> "18/19" Kunst. Ruimtelijke ordening. Architectuur. Sport en spel--België--Hedendaagse Tijd --- -Belgian arts --- Aesthetics --- -History of civilization --- Avant-garde (Esthétique) --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Belgium - History - 19th century. --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Belgium - History - 20th century. --- Arts - Political aspects - Belgium. --- Arts, Belgian --- Arts and Crafts Movement --- Cercle d'art Vie et Lumière (Brussel, 1904-1914) --- La Libre Esthétique (1894-1914) --- Les Vingt (1883-1893) --- art nouveau --- Fontainas, Adrienne --- Fontainas, Luc --- Hanser, David --- Legrand, Francine-Claire --- Arts, Primitive --- art nouveau. --- Arts and Crafts Movement. --- Les Vingt (1883-1893). --- La Libre Esthétique (1894-1914). --- Cercle d'art Vie et Lumière (Brussel, 1904-1914). --- Horta, Victor. --- Hanser, David. --- Ensor, James. --- Redon, Odilon. --- Fontainas, Adrienne. --- Fontainas, Luc. --- Legrand, Francine-Claire. --- 1880 - 1914. --- 19de eeuw. --- 20ste eeuw. --- België.