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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. The author critically exploits and sometimes comp

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Author

Darrigol, Olivier

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199644377

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Engineering, Physics

Updated

2026-03-25