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From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics
A. Mark Smith
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| #1621517 in Books | imusti | 2014-12-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.30 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 480 pages | University of Chicago Press|||
"Absolutely delightful to read, with an elegance far exceeding that of the overwhelming majority of scientific papers. The book holds one's attention and is difficult to put down."
From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its fundamental properties and such physical behaviors as reflection, refraction, and diffraction. This dramatic shiftwhich A. Mark Smith characterizes as the Keplerian turn”lies at the heart of this fascinating...
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