Roberto Casati

Roberto Casati was born in Milan in 1961. A research director at the Centre National de la Réchérche Scientifique, he lives in Paris and works at the Institut Nicod, a laboratory of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and of the École Normale. He studies the cognition of strange things - images, colors, sounds, places, holes - and shadows. With Achille Varzi he is the author of Holes and Other Superficialities and Parts and Places.

Books
	Shadows; Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time For Plato, shadows were the symbol of our limitations. For Galileo, they knocked the Earth from the center of the cosmos. They are a source of fear and a symbol of ignorance, and they loom large in art and design, mythology and folklore, physics