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Darrigol Olivier |
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A history of optics from Greek antiquity to the nineteenth century / / Olivier Darrigol |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012 |
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0-19-162694-5 |
0-19-162745-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (340 p.) |
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Optics - History |
Physical optics - History |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Conventions and notations; 1 From the Greeks to Kepler; 1.1 Greek theories of vision; 1.2 Medieval optics; 1.3 Kepler's optics; 1.4 Conclusions; 2 Mechanical medium theories of the seventeenth century; 2.1 Descartes's optics; 2.2 From Hobbes to Hooke; 2.3 Pardies's and Huygens's wave theories; 2.4 Optical imaging; 2.5 Conclusions; 3 Newton's optics; 3.1 Neo-atomist theories; 3.2 Newton's early investigations; 3.3 Early response; 3.4 An hypothesis; 3.5 The Opticks; 3.6 Conclusions; 4 The eighteenth century; 4.1 Ray optics; 4.2 Newtonian optics; 4.3 Neo-Cartesian optics |
4.4 Euler's theory of light4.5 Conclusions; 5 Interference, polarization, and waves in the early nineteenth century; 5.1 Thomas Young on sound and light; 5.2 Laplacian optics; 5.3 Fresnel's optics; 5.4 Conclusions; 6 Ether and matter; 6.1 The ether as an elastic body; 6.2 The electromagnetic theory of light; 6.3 The separation of ether and matter; 6.4 Conclusions; 7 Waves and rays; 7.1 Hamiltonian optics; 7.2 Diffraction theory; 7.3 Fourier synthesis; 7.4 Conclusions; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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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 |
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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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UNISA996336536803316 |
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Postgraduate medicine |
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[New York, NY], : [Vendome Group, LLC] |
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Berwyn, PA, : JTE Multimedia |
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Berwyn, PA, : Postgraduate Medicine |
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[Abingdon, Oxon, UK], : Taylor & Francis |
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