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The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light : Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century
The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century Author:Jed Z. Buchwald "No one interested in the history of optics, the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physics, or the general phenomenon of theory change in science can afford to ignore Jed Buchwald's well-structured, highly detailed, and scrupulously researched book. . . . Buchwald's analysis will surely constitute the essential starting point for fur... more »ther work on this important and hitherto relatively neglected episode of theory change."--John Worrall, Isis« less