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Light, a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age, Bruce Watson

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Light, a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age, Bruce Watson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-271) and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Light

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

907966073

Responsibility statement

Bruce Watson

Sub title

a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age

Summary

"Delving into mythology, religion, philosophy, painting, and science, 'Light' captures the wonder and awe of humanity's study of light across three millennia of discovery"--Front jacket flap

Table Of 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

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