Download or read book The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light written by Jed Z. Buchwald and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-03-15 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No one interested in the history of optics, the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physics, or the general phenomenon of theory change in science can afford to ignore Jed Buchwald's well-structured, highly detailed, and scrupulously researched book. . . . Buchwald's analysis will surely constitute the essential starting point for further work on this important and hitherto relatively neglected episode of theory change."—John Worrall, Isis
Download or read book The Wave Theory of Light written by Henry Crew and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Elementary Treatise on the Wave theory of Light written by Humphrey Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lectures on the Wave theory of Light written by Humphrey Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lectures on the Wave theory of Light written by Humphrey LLOYD (Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Wave Theory of Light Memoirs of Huygens Young and Fresnel 1900 written by Henry Crew and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Wave Theory of Licht and Spectra written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lectures on the Wave Theory of Light written by Humphrey Lloyd and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE III. POLARIZATION OF LIGHT. Gentlemen, --Having examined the principal phenomena of polarized light, and their laws--so far as these laws can be detected by experiment--we may now proceed to consider their connexion with the physical theory. On a former occasion, when considering the phenomena of unpolarized light, I discussed their bearing upon the two theories--the theory of Newton and that of Huygens; and it appeared, on an examination of the facts then considered, that the weight of probability was altogether in favour of the latter. Of the phenomena which we have been lately considering, and of those which still remain to be unfolded, the explanations afforded by the Newtonian theory are, comparatively speaking, so scanty and incomplete, that we shall best consult our own progress in this interesting branch of science, by confining our attention in what follows to the wave-theory. It is strange that the department of optics in which the wave-theory now stands unrivalled, should be the very same which Newton selected as affording the most decisive evidence against it. "Are not," says he, "all hypotheses erroneous, in which light is supposed to consist in pressure, or motion, propagated through a fluid medium ?" . . . . "for pressures, or motions, propagated from a shining body through an uniform medium, must be on all sides alike; whereas it appears that the rays of light have different properties in their different sides." In this objection Newton seems to have had his thoughts fixed upon that species of undulatory propagation, whose laws he himself had so sagaciously unfolded. When sound is propagated through air, or water, or any other uniform medium, the vibrations of the particles of the air, or water, are performed in...
Download or read book Lenses and Waves written by Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1690, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) published Traité de la Lumière, containing his renowned wave theory of light. It is considered a landmark in seventeenth-century science, for the way Huygens mathematized the corpuscular nature of light and his probabilistic conception of natural knowledge. This book discusses the development of Huygens' wave theory, reconstructing the winding road that eventually led to Traité de la Lumière. For the first time, the full range of manuscript sources is taken into account. In addition, the development of Huygens' thinking on the nature of light is put in the context of his optics as a whole, which was dominated by his lifelong pursuit of theoretical and practical dioptrics. In so doing, this book offers the first account of the development of Huygens' mathematical analysis of lenses and telescopes and its significance for the origin of the wave theory of light. As Huygens applied his mathematical proficiency to practical issues pertaining to telescopes – including trying to design a perfect telescope by means of mathematical theory – his dioptrics is significant for our understanding of seventeenth-century relations between theory and practice. With this full account of Huygens' optics, this book sheds new light on the history of seventeenth-century optics and the rise of the new mathematical sciences, as well as Huygens' oeuvre as a whole. Students of the history of optics, of early mathematical physics, and the Scientific Revolution, will find this book enlightening.
Download or read book The Wave Theory of Light Classic Reprint written by Henry Crew and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wave Theory of Light When, however, Michelson and Morley attempt to detect this relative motion of the earth and the ether as the earth proceeds in its orbital motion, they do not succeed in certainly finding that there is any [phil. Mag, December, and they accordingly conclude that this relative motion is quite small enough to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration. Of the two experimental facts just cited, one apparently confirms Fresnel's view, and makes possible an explanation of aberration in terms of the wave-theory; while the other leads us to think that the ether moves with the refracting medium, in which case the wave-theory appears incompetent to explain stellar aberration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Wave Theory of Light written by Christiaan Huygens and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
