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Paperback A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century Book

ISBN: 0198766955

ISBN13: 9780198766957

A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

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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...

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