A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century by Olivier Darrigol

A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

Olivier Darrigol

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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...

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