LEADER 03477nam 2200589 450 001 9910461074203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-162694-5 010 $a0-19-162745-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000170593 035 $a(EBL)886523 035 $a(OCoLC)784886673 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000636513 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12255441 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000636513 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10662522 035 $a(PQKB)11739908 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC886523 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL886523 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10768342 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL522052 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000170593 100 $a20120409d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA history of optics from Greek antiquity to the nineteenth century /$fOlivier Darrigol 210 1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (340 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-876695-5 311 $a0-19-964437-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a4.4 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 330 $aThis 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 synth 606 $aOptics$xHistory 606 $aPhysical optics$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOptics$xHistory. 615 0$aPhysical optics$xHistory. 676 $a535.09 700 $aDarrigol$b Olivier$053330 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461074203321 996 $aA history of optics from Greek antiquity to the nineteenth century$91980733 997 $aUNINA