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A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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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 synthesis brings out the actors' long-term
memory, their dependence on broad cultural shifts, and the
evolution of disciplinary divisions and connections. Conceptual
precision, textual concision, and abundant illustration make the
book accessible to a broad variety of readers interested in the
origins of modern optics.
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