Rise of the Wave Theory of Light Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century

Name: Rise of the Wave Theory of Light Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780226078847

ISBN-10: 0226078841

ISBN-13: 9780226078847

Edition: 1989

Authors: Jed Z. Buchwald

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"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

Book details

List price: $167.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/4/1989
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 498
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.93" long x 0.15" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

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.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Selectionism



The Optical Ray



The Concept of Polarization



Arago and the Discovery of Chromatic Polarization



Mobile Polarization



Fresnel, Diffraction, and Polarization



Fresnel's Ray Theory of Diffraction



Huygen's Principle and the Wave Theory



The Puzzle of Polarization



Transverse Waves



Controversy and Unification



A Case of Mutual Misunderstanding



Selectionists and Polarization after 1815



Fresnel's Final Unification



The Emerging Dominance of the Wave Theory


Appendixes


Notes


References


Name Index


Subject Index