Optics in the age of Euler : conceptions of the nature of light, 1700-1795 /
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| Author / Creator: | Hakfoort, Casper. |
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| Uniform title: | Optica in de eeuw van Euler. English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995. |
| Description: | vi, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1718414 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The debate on colours, 1672-1720
- 3. Theoretical traditions in physical optics, 1700-45
- 4. Euler-s 'Nova theoria' (1746)
- 5. The debate in Germany on the nature of light, 1740-95
- 6. Epilogue: optics as a mirror of eighteenth-century science
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
