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008 150424s2016 nyuaf b 001 0 eng d
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050 4 _aQC355.3
_b.W378 2016
082 0 4 _a535
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100 1 _aWatson, Bruce,
_d1953-
245 1 0 _aLight :
_ba radiant history from creation to the quantum age /
_cBruce Watson.
264 1 _aNew York, NY, USA :
_bBloomsbury USA,
_c2016.
300 _axiv, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations (some color) ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-271) and index.
505 0 _a"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 _a"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
650 0 _aLight
_xHistory.
650 0 _aOptics
_xHistory.
650 0 _aLight
_xPhilosophy.
655 7 _aHistory.
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