| The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century Contributor(s): Buchwald, Jed Z. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226078868 ISBN-13: 9780226078861 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $61.38 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1989 Annotation: Jed Z. Buchwald presents a new history of the fundamental changes in optical theory at the beginning of the nineteenth century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Optics & Light - Science | Waves & Wave Mechanics |
| Dewey: 535.130 |
| LCCN: 88018647 |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 6.04" W x 9.03" (1.50 lbs) 498 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |