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A history of optics : from Greek antiquity to the nineteenth century by Darrigol, Olivier is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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

Who reads A history of optics : from Greek antiquity to the nineteenth century?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Darrigol, Olivier
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9780199644377
Category
history
Subjects
Science, Engineering, Physics
Updated
2026-03-25

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