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Dust The History Of The Small & The Invisible, Book By Joesph A. Amato
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Características del artículo
- Estado
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- ISBN
- 9780520231955
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520231953
ISBN-13
9780520231955
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1909338
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dust : a History of the Small and the Invisible
Number of Pages
262 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Materials Science / General, Philosophy & Social Aspects, General
Publication Year
2001
Illustrator
Rorer, Abigail, Yes
Genre
Nature, Technology & Engineering, Science, Psychology
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-027115
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
551.51/13
Table Of Content
Foreword, by Jeffrey Burton Russell Introduction: Little Things Mean a Lot 1. Of Times When Dust Was the Companion of All 2. Old Metaphors and New Measures of the Microcosm 3. Early Discernment of the Minute 4. The Great Cleanup 5. Atoms and Microbes: New Guides to the Small and Invisible 6. Discerning the Invisible for the Good of the Nation 7. Lighting Up the Microcosm 8. The Snake Still Lurks Conclusion: Who Will Tremble at These Marvels? Notes Bibliographic Essay Personal Thoughts and Thanks
Synopsis
While the story of the big has often been told, the story of the small has not yet even been outlined. WithDust, Joseph Amato enthralls the reader with the first history of the small and the invisible.Dustis a poetic meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined across the ages. Examining a thousand years of Western civilization--from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases--Dustoffers a savvy story of the genesis of the microcosm. Dust, which fills the deepest recesses of space, pervades all earthly things. Throughout the ages it has been the smallest yet the most common element of everyday life. Of all small things, dust has been the most minute particulate the eye sees and the hand touches. Indeed, until this century, dust was simply accepted as a fundamental condition of life; like darkness, it marked the boundary between the seen and the unseen. With the full advent of scientific discovery, technological innovation, and social control, dust has been partitioned, dissected, manipulated, and even invented. In place of traditional and generic dust, a highly diverse particulate has been discovered and examined. Like so much else that was once considered minute, dust has been magnified by the twentieth-century transformations of our conception of the small. These transformations--which took form in the laboratory through images of atoms, molecules, cells, and microbes--defined anew not only dust and the physical world but also the human body and mind. Amato dazzles the reader with his account of how this powerful microcosm challenges the imagination to grasp the magnitude of the small, and the infinity of the finite. Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of 2000, While the story of the big has often been told, the story of the small has not yet even been outlined. With Dust , Joseph Amato enthralls the reader with the first history of the small and the invisible. Dust is a poetic meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined across the ages. Examining a thousand years of Western civilization--from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases-- Dust offers a savvy story of the genesis of the microcosm. Dust, which fills the deepest recesses of space, pervades all earthly things. Throughout the ages it has been the smallest yet the most common element of everyday life. Of all small things, dust has been the most minute particulate the eye sees and the hand touches. Indeed, until this century, dust was simply accepted as a fundamental condition of life; like darkness, it marked the boundary between the seen and the unseen. With the full advent of scientific discovery, technological innovation, and social control, dust has been partitioned, dissected, manipulated, and even invented. In place of traditional and generic dust, a highly diverse particulate has been discovered and examined. Like so much else that was once considered minute, dust has been magnified by the twentieth-century transformations of our conception of the small. These transformations--which took form in the laboratory through images of atoms, molecules, cells, and microbes--defined anew not only dust and the physical world but also the human body and mind. Amato dazzles the reader with his account of how this powerful microcosm challenges the imagination to grasp the magnitude of the small, and the infinity of the finite. Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of 2000, While the story of the big has often been told, the story of the small has not yet even been outlined. With Dust , Joseph Amato enthralls the reader with the first history of the small and the invisible. Dust is a poetic meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined across the ages. Examining a thousand years of Western civilization-from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases- Dust offers a savvy story of the genesis of the microcosm. Dust, which fills the deepest recesses of space, pervades all earthly things. Throughout the ages it has been the smallest yet the most common element of everyday life. Of all small things, dust has been the most minute particulate the eye sees and the hand touches. Indeed, until this century, dust was simply accepted as a fundamental condition of life; like darkness, it marked the boundary between the seen and the unseen. With the full advent of scientific discovery, technological innovation, and social control, dust has been partitioned, dissected, manipulated, and even invented. In place of traditional and generic dust, a highly diverse particulate has been discovered and examined. Like so much else that was once considered minute, dust has been magnified by the twentieth-century transformations of our conception of the small. These transformations-which took form in the laboratory through images of atoms, molecules, cells, and microbes-defined anew not only dust and the physical world but also the human body and mind. Amato dazzles the reader with his account of how this powerful microcosm challenges the imagination to grasp the magnitude of the small, and the infinity of the finite. Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of 2000
LC Classification Number
RA577.D8
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