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From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics / A. Mark Smith.

From sight to light : the passage from ancient to moder...

From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics / A. Mark Smith.

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From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics / A. Mark Smith.

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From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics / A. Mark Smith.

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Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Date

℗♭2015

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G 2016/2058

Record Identifier

74VKzbddj86X

MMS ID

991023562869702626

Language

English

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Physical content

xi, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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text

Media type

unmediated

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volume

Contents

Introduction -- The emergence of optics as a science : the Greek and early Greco-Roman background. Early intimations ; Physical and psychological theories of vision ; The anatomical and physiological grounds of vision ; Theories of color and color perception ; The Euclidean visual ray theory ; Eucl...

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Publisher

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Date Published

[2015]

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From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics / A. Mark Smith.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-440) and index.

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G 2016/2058

Record Identifier

74VKzbddj86X

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9780226174761

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991023562869702626

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