The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century

by Buchwald and Jed Z. Buchwald

Book Overview

"No one interested in the history of optics, the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physics, or the general phenomenon of theory change in science can afford to ignore Jed Buchwald's well-structured, highly detailed, and scrupulously researched book. . . . Buchwald's analysis will surely constitute the essential starting point for further work on this important and hitherto relatively neglected episode of theory change."--John Worrall,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226078868
• ISBN13: 9780226078861
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"