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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 synth. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-318) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191626944 0191626945 1299908012 9781299908017 9780191627453 0191627453 |