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Mirror, Mirror - A History Of The Human Love Affair With Reflection (Paperback, New Ed)
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Mirror, Mirror - A History Of The Human Love Affair With Reflection (Paperback, New Ed)
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The fascinating tale of one of the most remarkable inventions in
human history and its effects on myth, religion, science, manners,
and the arts.. Of all human inventions, the mirror is the one most
closely connected to our own consciousness. As our first technology
for contemplation of the self, the mirror is arguably as important
an invention as the wheel and perhaps even more universal (the
Incas, who had mirrors, did not invent wheels). Mirror Mirror is
the fascinating story of the mirror's invention, refinement, and
use in an astonishing range of human activities-from the
bloodthirsty smoking gods of the Toltecs to the fantastic mirrored
rooms wealthy Romans created for their orgies, to the mirror's key
role in the use and understanding of light. Pendergrast spins tales
of the 2,500-year mystery of whether Archimedes and his burning
mirror really set faraway Roman ships on fire; the medieval
Venetian glassmakers who first discovered the secret of making
large, flat mirrors from clear glass, and for whom any attempt to
leave their cloistered island was punishable by death; about Isaac
Newton, whose experiments with sunlight on mirrors once left him
blinded for three days; the
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