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From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics /
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 behavior...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The emergence of optics as a science : the Greek and early Greco-Roman background
- Ptolemy and the flowering of Greek optics
- Greco-Roman and early Arabic developments
- Alhacen and the grand synthesis
- Developments in the medieval Latin West
- The assimilation of perspectivist optics during the later Middle Ages and Renaissance
- The Keplerian turn and its technical background
- The seventeenth-century response.