[PDF.84bz] Optics in the Age of Euler: Conceptions of the Nature of Light, 1700-1795

Optics in the Age of Euler: Conceptions of the Nature of Light, 1700-1795

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 | #8000297 in Books |  2006-12-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.59 x5.98l,.84 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Good history book on the evolution of optics|By R. Barry Johnson|This is a well-written book and presents, contrasts, and compares the several competing traditions during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is a good history book on the evolution of optics, but it is not a book one should expect to learn the subject of optics. Those skilled in both geometrical a| |"...this book with its rich factual material and thought provoking ideas is a valuable contribution to the history of science." Nahum Kipnis, Technology and Culture|Language Notes|Text: English (translation)| Original La

This book studies the eighteenth-century origins and early phase of a fundamental debate in optics: whether light is a particle or wave. Specifically, it is the first in-depth study of the contents and reception of Leonhard Euler's wave theory of light. The author shows that contrary to what has been assumed, the debate did not start in 1672 with Newton's particle theory of light. Rather, it only really got under way after Euler published his wave theory in 1746. He ...

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