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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1. Verfasser: Darrigol, Olivier
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-318) and index.
ISBN:9780191626944
0191626945
1299908012
9781299908017
9780191627453
0191627453

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