Mirror mirror : a history of the human love affair with reflection / Mark Pendergrast.

  • Pendergrast, Mark.
Date:
[2003], ©2003
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

New York : Basic Books, [2003], ©2003.

Physical description

xii, 404 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Contributors

Contents

Mirror of the soul -- Magic visions -- Fields of light -- Rational mirror -- Looking-glass literature -- New way of seeing -- Grasping the universe -- Kaleidoscopic light waves -- Big eye -- Vanity business -- Celestial radios, divine x-rays -- Beyond Palomar -- Final reflections : illusions and realities

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-385) and index.

Languages

Subjects

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    AFN /PEN
    		Open shelves

Permanent link

Identifiers

ISBN

  • 0465054706