Light : a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age /: a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bruce Watson.
• Authors: Watson, Bruce, 1953-
• Contents: "This light is come" : myths of creation and first light -- "The thing you call light" : early philosophers from Greece to China -- :The highest bliss" : the millennium of divine radiance -- "A glass like a glittering star" : Islam's Golden Age -- "Bright is the noble edifice" : paradise in the Middle Ages -- Chiaro e scuro : light and dark on canvas -- "Investigate with me what light is" : the Scientific Revolution and the Century of Celestial Light -- "In my darken'd chamber" : Isaac Newton and "Opticks" -- "A wild and harmonized tune" : the Romantics and the light seductive -- Undulations : particle vs. wave -- Lumière : France's dazzling century -- "Little globe of sunshine" : electricity conquers the night -- c: Einstein and the quanta, particle, and wave -- "Catching up with our dreams" : lasers and other everyday wonders.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 535; Science: general issues; Light -- History; Optics -- History; Light -- Philosophy; Light; Light -- Philosophy; Optics; Science -- Optics; Archaeology; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781620405611
• Related ISBNs: 162040561X; 9781620405598; 1620405598
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-271) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.