Newton's Optical Writings : A Guided Study /
Masterworks of Discovery: Guided Studies of Great Texts in Science.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
1994.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Preliminaries. An introduction to Isaac Newton
- Optics in the age of Newton
- pt. 2. The early optics. Newton's first publication, the 1672 letter
- From the early theory to The opticks
- pt. 3. The opticks. The opticks, book I, part I
- The opticks, book I, part II
- The opticks, book II, parts I and II
- The opticks, book II, parts III and IV
- The opticks, book III
- pt. 4. After the opticks. The aftermath of the optics of Newton
- Appendix A. Impulse and wave theories of light
- Appendix B. Estimating air thickness for the colored rings
- Appendix C. Rays in force fields
- Appendix D. The changing speed of rotating spheres.