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Beyond 2000by Margaret WertheimISBN 0949708283 (0-949708-28-3)
Hardcover, Lansdowne Publishing Pty, Limited
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Bonesby Christopher Turner, Jeffery Kastner, Margaret WertheimISBN 1932698248 (1-932698-24-8)
Softcover, Cabinet
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Cabinet 27: Mountainsby Sina Najafi, Christopher Turner, Margaret Wertheim , Jeffery KastnerISBN 193269823X (1-932698-23-X)
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Patricia Piccinni: We Are Familyby Linda Michael, Christine Wertheim, Margaret Wertheim , Victoria LynnISBN 1920784039 (1-920784-03-9)
Softcover, Australia Council for the Arts
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Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internetby Margaret WertheimISBN 186049790X (1-86049-790-X)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet'Book summary:In Pythagoras' Trousers, science writer and feminist Margaret Wertheim took an astute look at the social and cultural history of physics. She explored how the development of physics became intertwined with the rising power of institutionalized religion, and how both of these predominantly masculine pursuits have influenced women's ability to join the physics community. Now she has turned her attention to virtual reality, looking at similarities between how we view it today and how art and religion was viewed in medieval times. Her assertion is that rather than carrying us forward into new and fabulous other worlds, virtual reality is actually carrying us backwards--to essentially medieval dreams. Beginning with the medieval view, with its definition of the world as spiritual space, Wertheim traces the emergence of modern physics' emphasis on physical space. She then presents her thesis: that cyberspace, which is an outgrowth of modern science, posits the existence of a genuine yet immaterial world in which people are invited to commune in a nonbodily fashion, just as medieval theology brought intangible souls together in heaven. The perfect realm awaits, we are told, not behind the pearly gates but the electronic gateways labeled .com and .net. How did we get from seeing ourselves in soul space (the world of Dante and the late medievals) to seeing ourselves as purely in body space (the world of Newton and Einstein)? This crucial transition and the new shift propelled by the Internet are convincingly described in this challenging book. [via]
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- The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet: ISBN 1860495273 (1-86049-527-3)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited - Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet: ISBN 0393320537 (0-393-32053-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet: ISBN 0868247448 (0-86824-744-8)
Hardcover, Transworld Pub - Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet: ISBN 039304694X (0-393-04694-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet: ISBN 186049790X (1-86049-790-X)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet: ISBN 1860495273 (1-86049-527-3)
Pythagoras' Trousersby Margaret WertheimISBN 0517172747 (0-517-17274-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Warsby Margaret WertheimISBN 1857025830 (1-85702-583-0)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Pythagoras' Trousers : Physics, Faith, and Feminismby Margaret WertheimISBN 081292200X (0-8129-2200-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Slothby Brian Dillon, Sina Najafi, Marina Warner, Margaret WertheimISBN 1932698272 (1-932698-27-2)
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