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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2012.
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| Summary: | 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 subsequent competition between medium-based and corpuscular concepts of light; and it details the nineteenth-century flourishing of mechanical ether theories. The author critically exploits and sometimes completes the more specialized histories that have flourished in the past few years. The resulting synth. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (804 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780191627453 0191627453 9780191626944 0191626945 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |