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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From the Greeks to Kepler
- Mechanical medium theories of the seventeenth century
- Newton's optics
- The eighteenth century
- Interference, polarization, and waves in the early nineteenth century
- Ether and matter
- Waves and rays.