A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century.

This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light. It shows how light gradually became the central entity of a domain of physics that no longer referred to the functioning of the eye; it retraces the subseque...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Darrigol, Olivier
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2012.
Subjects:	Evolution. Optics > History. Relativity (Physics) > History. Optics. Relativity (Physics) History.