A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

by Olivier Darrigol

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198766955
• ISBN13: 9780198766957
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.5"