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From Sight to Light - The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics A. Mark Smith
From Sight to Light - The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics
A. Mark Smith
Breaking from previous scholarship that sees Johannes Kepler as the culmination of a long-evolving optical tradition that traced back to Greek antiquity, the author presents Kepler instead as marking a rupture with this tradition, arguing that his theory of retinal imaging, was instrumental in prompting the turn from sight to light.
480 pages, 41 halftones, 58 line drawings
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 9, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226174761 |
| Publishers | University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 480 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 236 × 32 mm · 776 g |
| Language | English |
