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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 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....
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"The story of how the laser was first developed is compelling, involving a number of fascinating individuals and the combined efforts of separate research groups working around the world. The History of the Laser offers a readable account of this remarkable period of scientific endeavour, focusing on the people involved and their particular contributions. However, far more than a historical narrative, the book also offers an accessible and non-mathematical...
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Although optics is a specialized branch of pysics, the field has worked its way into popular culture and imagination in a variety of circumstances. From the ancient solar weapon of Archimedes to the ray guns found in comic books and movies, the study of light has made appearances in many surprising ways throughout history. Physicist and science writer Stephen R. Wilk collects his previously published essays on optics to survey the past and present...
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"'Zapped' tells the story of all the light we cannot see, tracing microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays, radio waves, infrared, ultraviolet, and other forms of radiation from their historic, world-altering discoveries in the nineteenth century to their central role in modern life. Along the way, Berman sets the record straight on the health costs (and benefits) of radiation and explores the consequences of our newest technologies"--Front flap of dust jacket....
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