Autore	Darrigol Olivier
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (340 p.)
Disciplina	535.09
Soggetto topico	Optics - History Physical optics - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-19-162694-5 0-19-162745-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	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
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461074203321

Autore	Bernardo Luís Miguel
Edizione	[1a Edição Porto, fev. 2010.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Porto, : Universidade do Porto, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (536 p.)
Collana	Série Do Saber
Soggetto topico	Optics - History Light - History Color - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	989-8265-24-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	por
Nota di contenuto	8. parte. A Luz Quântica e a Óptica Clássica no Século XX, até à Invenção do Laser -- 9. parte. A Óptica na Segunda Metade do Século XX e as suas Perspectivas para o Século XXI.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458746303321

Autore	Wilk Stephen R
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2013]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (256 pages)
Disciplina	621.36
Soggetto topico	Optics Optics - History Optics - Social aspects - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-19-994802-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	I. History -- Ancient Optics : Magnification Without Lenses -- The Solar Weapon of Archimedes -- Claudius Ptolemy's Law of Refraction -- Antonio de Ulloa's Mystery -- The Miracle of St. Gascoigne -- Rays of the Sun -- Roy G. Biv -- George Christoph Lichtenberg -- Hopkinson's Silk Handkerchief -- First Light : Thomas Melville and the Beginnings of Spectroscopy -- Mediocrity and Illumination -- Even If You Can't Draw a Straight Line -- A Sea Change -- Thomas Pearsall and the Ultraviolet -- If at First You Don't Succeed -- More than a Burner -- Apply Light Pressure -- Sound Movies, the World's Fair, and Stellar Spectroscopy -- Déjà vu -- The Magic Lantern of Omar Khayyam -- II. Weird Science -- The Yellow Sun Paradox -- Once in a Blue Moon -- Chromatic Dispersions -- The Eye in the Spiral -- Retroreflectors -- Yes, I Was Right! It Is Obvious! -- Edible Lasers -- Pyrotechnic Lasers -- Defunct Lasers -- The Phantom Laser -- The Case of the Oily Mirrors; A Locked Room Mystery -- Pinhole Glasses -- Undulations -- III. Pop Culture -- This is Your Cat on Lasers -- Dord -- Zap! -- Mystic Cameras -- Playing With Light -- I Must Find That Tractor Beam -- The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Starbow -- Diamonds in the Dark -- A Popular History of the Laser -- Pop Culture Errors in Optics -- Pop Spectrum -- The Telephote -- Afterword.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453326303321

Autore	Abati, Silvano
Pubbl/distr/stampa	S. Stefano Belbo (CN) : Fabiano, 1997
Descrizione fisica	160 p. : tav. ill. ; 24 cm
Disciplina	535.0902
Altri autori (Persone)	Borchi, Emilioauthor De Cola, Aldoauthor
Soggetto topico	Optics - History
Classificazione	LC QC352 53(091) 53.2.4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	ita
Record Nr.	UNISALENTO-991002682459707536

Autore	Croft William J
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (153 p.)
Disciplina	502/.82
Collana	Series in popular science
Soggetto topico	Microscopy - History Optics - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-92786-4 9786611927868 981-277-490-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Foreword; Contents; Chapter I Light and the Ancient Greeks; Chapter II Early Microscopies; Chapter III Early Microscopists; Chapter IV Polarized Light and Crystals; Chapter V The Polarizing Microscope; Chapter VI Reflected Light Microscopy; Chapter VII Particles and Waves; Chapter VIII The Electron Microscope; Interactions with Matter; Biology; Resolution; Electron Diffraction; Endnote; Chapter IX The Scanning Electron Microscope; The Electron Source; The Lens System; The Electron Collector; The Image; Backscattered Electrons (BSEs); Environmental SEM; Microlithography Chapter X Chemical Composition from MicroscopyOptical Microscopy; Electrons Atoms and X-Rays; EPMA; X-Ray Detection; Qualitative Analysis; Quantitative Analysis; Elemental Mapping; Materials; Chapter XI Scanning Probe Microscopies; Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPM); Scanning Near Field Optical Microscopy (SNOM); Confocal Microscopy; Chapter XII Acoustic Microscopy; Imaging; Microscopy; Chapter XIII Future Microscopies; Further Reading; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451081703321