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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Contents
Conventions and notations
1 From the Greeks to Kepler
1.1 Greek theories of vision
1.2 Medieval optics
1.3 Kepler’s optics
1.4 Conclusions
2 Mechanical medium theories of the seventeenth century
2.1 Descartes’s optics
2.2 From Hobbes to Hooke
2.3 Pardies’s and Huygens’s wave theories
2.4 Optical imaging
2.5 Conclusions
3 Newton’s optics
3.1 Neo-atomist theories
3.2 Newton’s early investigations
3.3 Early response
3.4 An hypothesis
3.5 The Opticks
3.6 Conclusions
4 The eighteenth century
4.1 Ray optics
4.2 Newtonian optics
4.3 Neo-Cartesian optics
4.4 Euler’s theory of light
4.5 Conclusions
5 Interference, polarization, and waves in the early nineteenth century
5.1 Thomas Young on sound and light
5.2 Laplacian optics
5.3 Fresnel’s optics
5.4 Conclusions
6 Ether and matter
6.1 The ether as an elastic body
6.2 The electromagnetic theory of light
6.3 The separation of ether and matter
6.4 Conclusions
7 Waves and rays
7.1 Hamiltonian optics
7.2 Diffraction theory
7.3 Fourier synthesis
7.4 Conclusions
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
Footnote
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