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Light : a radiant history from creation to the quantum age / Bruce Watson.

By: Publisher: New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury USA, 2016Description: xiv, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781620405598
  • 1620405598
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 535 23
LOC classification:
  • QC355.3 .W378 2016
Contents:
"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.
Summary: "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
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks QC355.3 .W378 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001403673

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-271) and index.

"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.

"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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