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

Author
Watson, Bruce, 1953- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Description
xiv, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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    Summary note
    "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"--Front jacket flap.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-271) and index.
    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
    • Lumière : 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.
    ISBN
    • 9781620405598 ((hardback))
    • 1620405598 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2014455331
    OCLC
    907966073
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