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The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century

Jed Z. Buchwald

"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

Book Details

  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publish Date: Mar 15th, 1989
  • Pages: 498
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.03in - 6.04in - 1.09in - 1.50lb
  • EAN: 9780226078861
  • Categories: Physics - Optics & LightWaves & Wave Mechanics

About the Author

Buchwald, Jed Z.: - Jed Z. Buchwald is Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at California Institute of Technology. He was previously director of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at Massachusets Institute of Technology.

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