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From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics
From Sight to Light The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics
Author: A. Mark Smith
From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its fundamental properties and such physical behaviors as reflection, refraction, and diffraction. T...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226174761
ISBN-10: 022617476X
Publication Date: 11/24/2014
Pages: 480
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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