Author: Henry Coddington
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2015-12-27
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781354063996
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Author: Christiaan Huygens
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-07-17
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 3752308168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: Treatise On Light by Christiaan Huygens
Author: Richard Cockburn Maclaurin
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Isaac Newton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1952-01-01
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780486602059
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduces the text of Newton's dissertation on the nature and properties of light
Author: Isaac Newton
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-19
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Optics by Isaac Newton is a treatise on light and the science of reflected light, refracted light, and colors. The book analyzes the fundamental nature of light using the refraction of light with prisms and lenses, the diffraction of light by closely spaced sheets of glass, and the behavior of color mixtures with spectral lights or pigment powders. Excerpt: "Exper. 1. I took a black oblong stiff Paper terminated by Parallel Sides, and with a Perpendicular right Line drawn cross from one side to the other, distinguished it into two equal Parts. One of these parts I painted with a red color and the other with blue. The Paper was very black, and the Colors intense and thickly laid on, that the Phænomenon might be more conspicuous. This Paper I viewed through a Prism of solid Glass, whose two Sides through which the Light passed to the Eye was plane and well polished, and contained an Angle of about sixty degrees; which Angle I call the refracting Angle of the Prism."
Author: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9789042002630
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →1997 - the centennial year of the electron - provides a good occasion to publish the first English translation ever made of H.A. Lorentz's doctoral dissertation of 1875. Just 22 years old, Lorentz took up and handled magisterially one major unresolved problem of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, the reflection and refraction of light. By then the superiority of Maxwell's electromagnetic ether theory over current elastic solid conceptions such as Fresnel's was not nearly a settled issue. In his dissertation, Lorentz strove with considerable success to make it that. Still, he found that neither theory allowed for a satisfactory account of dispersion. One intriguing aspect of Lorentz's earliest scientific achievement (which within two years was to earn him the chair of theoretical physics at Leyden University) is that a range of subjects soon to occupy him for the rest of his life are already clearly foreshadowed in it. So far, Lorentz's first step in science has existed only in the original Dutch, and in a French translation made long ago as part of the Collected Works. Here, the joint translators have striven to provide a fluently readable, full text while preserving the flavor of Lorentz' original language and style.
Author: Christiaan Huygens
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-10-28
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781518800894
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Considering the great influence which this Treatise has exercised in the development of the Science of Optics, it seems strange that two centuries should have passed before an English edition of the work appeared. Perhaps the circumstance is due to the mistaken zeal with which formerly everything that conflicted with the cherished ideas of Newton was denounced by his followers. The Treatise on Light of Huygens has, however, withstood the test of time: and even now the exquisite skill with which he applied his conception of the propagation of waves of light to unravel the intricacies of the phenomena of the double refraction of crystals, and of the refraction of the atmosphere, will excite the admiration of the student of Optics.