INVISIBLE: THE DANGEROUS ALLURE OF THE UNSEEN
Book ID/图书代码： 00200013B65083
English Summary/英文概要： If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three, given the opportunity.
But there’s no need to feel guilty. Because these impulses, and plenty more, have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility. Precisely because it points to realms beyond our senses, the notion of invisibility has long performed as a receptacle for fears and dreams, as something that hints at worlds where other rules apply; and as a mighty power and a terrible curse, a sexual promise, a spiritual condition.
This is a history of invisibility in our culture. It takes in Plato, the occult in the Renaissance and the Middle Ages, Shakespearian ghosts, ether and cathode rays and nineteenth-century science, spiritualism, electromagnetism, H.G. Wells, the microscopic world, camouflage, prestidigitation and twenty-first century nanoscience.
Here is everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the invisible - from the medieval to the cutting-edge, fairy tales to telecommunications, from beliefs about the supernatural to the discovery of dark energy.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如果你是看不见的，你会做些什么？很可能是一些需要权利、财富或者性的事情。很可能是以上三者一起才能能得到的机会。
但这没有必要感到内疚。因为这些冲动或者更多是深藏在心中看不到的。恰恰因为它指向的领域是超出我们判断力的，隐形的概念一直表现为恐惧和梦想的容器， 作为一些事暗示世界其它规则适用的地方；并且作为一个强大的力量和一个可怕的诅咒，一个性的承诺，一个精神的状态。
这是我们文化中隐形的历史。它发生在柏拉图，文艺复兴和中世纪的神秘、莎士比亚的鬼魂、乙醚和阴极射线加上19世纪的科学、唯心论、电磁学，H.G.威尔斯、微观世界、伪装、变戏法和21世纪纳米科学。
这就是一切你曾想知道的看不见的事物-----从中世纪到尖端，从童话故事到通讯，从信仰超自然到发现暗能量。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“迷人的事实收获传递出锋利的智慧和洞察力，很难出现错误”（罗伯特 道格拉斯 菲尔赫斯特每日电讯报）
"As a harvest of fascinating facts delivered with sharp wit and insight, it is hard to fault" (Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Daily Telegraph)
About the Author/作者介绍： Philip Ball 是一个自由撰稿人和Nature 的编者顾问，在那他曾担任过物理科学的编辑。他通常写科学的和大众的媒体报道并且他的很多书包括临界物质：一件事如何引导另一件（获得2005年安内特科学书籍奖），音乐本能、反常的：创造人类的奇怪想法，好奇心：科学是如何对一切都感兴趣的。他最近的一本书《服务帝国：在希特勒下的科学灵魂斗争》。
Philip Ball is a freelance writer and a consultant editor for Nature, where he previously worked as an editor for physical sciences. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and his many books include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything. His most recent book is Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler.
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