From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics / A. Mark Smith.
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]
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℗♭2015
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G 2016/2058
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English
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xi, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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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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Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
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[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
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74VKzbddj86X
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9780226174761
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991023562869702626