A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

Zusatztext pleasant and useful reading Informationen zum Autor Olivier Darrigol is Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, where he has been a researcher since 1983. He won the Marc-Auguste Pictet prize of the Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève in 2000 and the Grammaticakis-Neumann prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2004. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung 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 is a clear and richly illustrated synthesis of a large amount of literature, and a reliable and efficient guide for anyone who wishes to enter this domain. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: From the Greeks to Kepler 2: Mechanical medium theories of the seventeenth century 3: Newton's optics 4: The eighteenth century 5: Interference, polarization, and waves in the early nineteenth century 6: Ether and matter 7: Waves and rays

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Olivier Darrigol, Darrigol Olivier
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.04.2012
• EAN: 9780199644377
• ISBN: 978-0-19-964437-7
• Pages: 344
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 250 mm x 26 mm
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique; popular science, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & Molecular, SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light, History of Science, Optical physics, Atomic & molecular physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics