MARC details
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02237cam a2200361Ii 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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907966073 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20190729110510.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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150424s2016 nyuaf b 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781620405598 |
| Qualifying information |
(HB) : |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1620405598 |
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(HB) : |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN |
9781620405611 |
| Qualifying information |
(ePub) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
YDXCP |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
YDXCP |
| Modifying agency |
BTCTA |
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BDX |
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OCLCQ |
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DAD |
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OCLCO |
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ZQP |
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ABG |
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OCLCO |
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CDX |
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OCLCF |
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OCLCO |
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COO |
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VP@ |
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OBE |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QC355.3 |
| Item number |
.W378 2016 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
535 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Watson, Bruce, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1953- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Light : |
| Remainder of title |
a radiant history from creation to the quantum age / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Bruce Watson. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York, NY, USA : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Bloomsbury USA, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiv, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations (some color) ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
| Content type code |
txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
| Media type code |
n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-271) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
"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 -- LumieÌre : 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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"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."--Dust jacket |
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1 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Light |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Optics |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Light |
| General subdivision |
Philosophy. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
History. |
| Source of term |
fast |
| Authority record control number |
(OCoLC)fst01411628 |
| 948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN) |
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| Series part designator, SPT (RLIN) |
u613092 |
| 903 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT C, LDC (RLIN) |
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33598 |