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 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2012
Schlagworte:	Optics Optics -- History Physical optics -- History Electronic books Physical optics ; History Optics ; History Optik Geschichte
Umfang:	XII, 327 S.