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A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
Author: Olivier Darrigol
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 corpusc...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199644377
ISBN-10: 0199644373
Publication Date: 3/24/2012
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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