LIGHT YEARS: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF MANKIND’S FASCINATION WITH LIGHT
Book ID/图书代码： 06556017C00012
English Summary/英文概要： Brian Clegg recounts how ancient civilizations understood light spiritually, and looks at the first scientific grapplings with light.
Clegg looks at the contribution of artists to our understanding of light, examines the great revolutionaries of light theory including Galileo and Albert Einstein, and explains the mind-bending advances of quantum physics.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我们无法想象人类生活在一个没有光的世界中，光既是我们认识这个世界的钥匙，也寄托了人类的精神和希望。本书试图带领读者进行一次时间旅行，将人类对于光的探索和感受娓娓道来。随着探索，光不断推动着改变我们生活的技术出现，它甚至还引导我们质疑现实的本质。从新石器时代人们在巨石阵中对光的崇拜，到印象派画家在绘画中对光的革命性观察；从牛顿用三棱透镜将一束白光分解成了彩虹色谱，到爱因斯坦和费曼得出令人震惊的结论……本书探索了人类追寻光的非凡历程和不断被颠覆的认识。这本书呈现的不仅是人类探索的历史，也是一部科学技术发展史、思想史。(DB)
Awards/获奖情况：’A fascinating book on a fascinating subject. It brings together all aspects of light in an unusual and compelling way.’ * Sir Patrick Moore CBE * ’A fascinating book which illuminates and entertains.’ * Sir Clive Sinclair * ’Light’s properties often seem mysterious to the point of being unfathomable. Yet in this extraordinary book Brian Clegg manages to explain them through the lives of those so fixated with light that they have shaped our perception of it... Clegg’s accessible writing style manages to encapsulate the lives of light’s disciples with humorous and interesting anecdotes... Clegg also provides real scientific insight into how light behaves. He explains complex theories through lucid metaphors, without resorting to the elaborate diagrams so beloved of some popular science writers...Clegg indulges in future gazing, too, the results of which are quite awesome.’ * New Scientist * ’This immensely likeable work of pop science traces "man’s enduring fascination with light", from Aristotle’s plans for a death ray (burning enemy ships with a giant array of mirrors) through to a recent experiment that seems to have sent Mozart’s 40th Symphony faster than light, and thus back through time. Clegg is very good at explaining the bizarre properties of light.’ * Steven Poole, Guardian *
About the Author/作者介绍： 布莱恩·克莱格（Brian Clegg），1955年出生于英国兰开夏郡，剑桥大学自然科学硕士（专攻实验物理）。知名科普作家，为《自然》《BBC历史》《物理世界》《科学美国人》《泰晤士报》《观察家报》《卫报》等报刊撰写专栏和评论。作品包括畅销书《万有引力》《神之效应》《大爆炸前传》《无限简史》《构造时间机器》等，其作品被翻译为十多种语言。布莱恩是英国皇家艺术学会会员、英国物理学会会员，经常在科教节目中出镜，他在伦敦皇家学院举办的讲座场场爆满。
Science writer Brian Clegg studied physics at Cambridge University and specialises in making the strangest aspects of the universe, from infinity to time travel and quantum theory, accessible to the general reader. He is editor of www.popularscience.co.uk and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His previous books include Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You, Dice World, The Quantum Age and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide.
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