03477nam 2200589 450 991046107420332120200520144314.00-19-162694-50-19-162745-3(CKB)2670000000170593(EBL)886523(OCoLC)784886673(SSID)ssj0000636513(PQKBManifestationID)12255441(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000636513(PQKBWorkID)10662522(PQKB)11739908(MiAaPQ)EBC886523(Au-PeEL)EBL886523(CaPaEBR)ebr10768342(CaONFJC)MIL522052(EXLCZ)99267000000017059320120409d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA history of optics from Greek antiquity to the nineteenth century /Olivier DarrigolOxford :Oxford University Press,2012.1 online resource (340 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-876695-5 0-19-964437-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 optics4.4 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; ZThis 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. The author critically exploits and sometimes completes the more specialized histories that have flourished in the past few years. The resulting synthOpticsHistoryPhysical opticsHistoryElectronic books.OpticsHistory.Physical opticsHistory.535.09Darrigol Olivier53330MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461074203321A history of optics from Greek antiquity to the nineteenth century1980733UNINA