Smith A. Mark - From Sight To Light The Passage From Ancient To Modern Optics - Paperback 4 Discs Barcode: 602567359531

Barcode: 602567359531

Release Date: 11/19/2001

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Smith A. Mark - From Sight To Light The Passage From Ancient To Modern Optics - Paperback 4 Discs Barcode: 602567359531Binding: Paperback Description: From its inception in Greek antiquity the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century however the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its fundamental properties and such physical behaviors as reflection refraction and diffraction. This dramatic shift which A. Mark Smith characterizes as the Keplerian turn" lies