Mirror mirror: a history of the human love affaire with reflection

✍ Scribed by Pendergrast, Mark

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Year: 2003;2010
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The mirror of the soul -- Magic visions -- Fields of light -- The rational mirror -- Looking glass literature -- A new way of seeing -- Grasping the universe -- Kaleidoscopic light waves -- Big eye -- The vanity business -- Celestial radios, divine x-rays -- Beyond Palomar -- Final reflections : illusions and realities.

✦ Table of Contents

The mirror of the soul --
Magic visions --
Fields of light --
The rational mirror --
Looking glass literature --
A new way of seeing --
Grasping the universe --
Kaleidoscopic light waves --
Big eye --
The vanity business --
Celestial radios, divine x-rays --
Beyond Palomar --
Final reflections : illusions and realities.

✦ Subjects

Miroirs--Histoire;Mirrors;Mirrors--History;Reflecting telescopes;Reflection (Optics);Réflexion (Optique);Réflexion (optique);Télescopes;History;Mirrors -- History;Miroirs -- Histoire;Réflexion (Optique);Télescopes;Réflexion (optique)