Light : a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age /: a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age. (2016)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Light : a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age /: a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age. (2016)
- Main Title:
- Light : a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age
- 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.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.71507
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