Mirror, Mirror by Pendergrast, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Introduction Chapter 1 The Mirror of the Soul

The Ka in the Mirror Golden Reflections for the Lady of Uruk One God, Many Mirrors Trade, Empires, and Etruscan Art Greek Self-Examination “Barbarian” Celts, “Civilized” Romans Cosmic Mirrors of the Orient Peruvian Sun-Catchers Aztec Smoking Mirrors

Chapter 2 Magic Visions

Demon-Haunted Worlds, Sacred Metaphors Striving to See More Forty Devils with Their Imps Inquisitorial Fires and a Skeptic New Worlds John Dee: Renaissance Man A Model for Prospero How Pitiful a Thing Is It, When the Wise Are Deluded Behold, You Are Become Free Final Journeys John Dee’s Legacy

Chapter 3 Fields of Light

Plato’s Mirror Worlds Aristotle’s Rainbow Visions Hellenistic Geometry and Burning Mirrors The Magic of Conic Sections The Last Flash of Greek Brilliance The Arabian Candle Universal Light and the Rainbow Connection Natural Magic Comes of Age A New Era

Chapter 4 The Rational Mirror

Kepler’s Visions “A Vast Crowd of Stars” Descartes’ Clockwork Universe Athanasius Kircher’s Ecstatic Journey The 600-Foot Telescope and Monstrous Insects Isaac Newton Makes a Telescope The Oddest Detection Newton’s Queries The Seashore of the Universe

Chapter 5 Looking-Glass Literature

Congealed Air The Mirror Island of Murano Sacred and Secular Specula The Elizabethan Looking Glass Spiritual Optics and Mirrors of Piss

Chapter 6 A New Way of Seeing

Brunelleschi’s Perspective Jan van Eyck Was Here Leonardo’s Mirrors Dürer’s Evolving Self-Portraits The Death Mirror Mirror Games Camera Obscuras and Other Aids Breaking the Mirror Monopoly British Self-Regard

Chapter 7 Grasping the Universe

Telescopic Advances of the Eighteenth Century The Best Telescopes Ever Made A Kingly Grant to Penetrate Space A Supernatural (But Sometimes Mistaken) Intelligence John Herschel Sweeps the Southern Skies Fraunhofer’s Magical Glass The Leviathan of Parsonstown Silver-on-Glass and the Great Melbourne Failure Light Through the Slits

Chapter 8 Kaleidoscopic Light Waves

Interfering with Light Dark Lines, Lucid Cameras The Kaleidoscope Craze Stereoscopic Snits Marrying Electricity, Magnetism, and Light Invisible Light Every Way You Look Light, the Universe, and Everything The New Astronomy Magic Mirrors Shine Again George Stratton’s Mirror Worlds

Chapter 9 Big Eye

Keeler Revives the Crossley The Master Mirror-Maker Hale’s Demons, Ritchey’s Frustration War Optics The Expanding Universe Ritchey’s Last Hurrahs Toward Palomar Russell Porter: A New Leonardo Men in White The One-Armed Maniac Finishing the Big Eye

Chapter 10 The Vanity Business

Windows and Mirrors for the Modern World New Thought at the Funhouse The Sexy, Made-Up 1920s For Men: Just Don’t Call It Makeup Hollywood Vanities Turn Around and There You Are

Chapter 11 Celestial Radios , Divine X - Rays

Grote Reber’s Radio Mirror Radar Comes of Age Discovering the Radio Universe Quasars and Lookback Time Whispers from the Beginning of Time Pulsating Messages from Little Green Men Where Stars Are Born Radio Astronomy Comes of Age X-Ray Mirrors Unreflectable Black Holes

Chapter 12 Beyond Palomar

Aden Meinel Thinks Big Multiple Mirror Mania Laser Light Looking Through Dust with Infrared Mirrors on the Dark Side Adaptive Optics on the Dark Side The Space Telescope Jerry Nelson’s Ingenious Solution Finally Thinking Big Roger Angel’s Honeycombs Downsizing and Disunity Adaptive Optics Comes Out of Its Dark Closet The Perfectly Wrong Mirror Keeping Infrared Mirrors Cold in Space Gossamer Mirrors in Space Overwhelmingly Large Plans on Earth The Fate of the Universe

Chapter 13 Final Reflections: Illusions and Realities

Distortions, Magic, Psychics, and Feng Shui Sun-Struck in the Pyrenees Factories, Explosions, Blind Spots Mirror Artists John Dobson, Mirror Evangelist Kaleidoscope Renaissance Fearful Symmetry, Mirror Universes Searching for Gravity Waves High-Tech Mirrors and Mother Nature’s Example The Mirror Reversal Puzzle True Mirrors Who Do You See in the Mirror? Apes, Elephants, and Dolphins Face the Mirror When Babies Become Aware of Themselves The Mirrorless Biami Garden of Eden

Notes on Sources

General Books on Mirrors Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 List of Interviews, Conducted 1999–2003.

Acknowledgments Illustration Permissions and Credits

Cover Photo Author Photo Text Illustrations Insert Photos Insert 1 Insert 2

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