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Optics in the Age of Euler: Conceptions of the Nature of Light, 1700-1795 - Softcover

Hakfoort, Casper

 
9780521035071: Optics in the Age of Euler: Conceptions of the Nature of Light, 1700-1795
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521035074 ISBN 13: 9780521035071
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

What is light? This 1995 book studies the eighteenth-century origins and early phases of this key debate in optics.

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According to received historiography, the fundamental issue in eighteenth-century optics was whether light could be understood as the emission of particles or as the motion of waves in a subtle medium. Moreover, the emission theory of light was supposed to have been dominant in the eighteenth century, backed by Newton's physical arguments.This picture is enriched and qualified by focussing on the origins, contents, and reception of Leonhard Euler's wave theory of light published in 1746, here studied in depth for the first time. Contrary to what has been assumed, in an important sense, the particle-wave debate only starts with Euler. In addition, Euler's wave theory was the most popular theory in Germany for thirty-five years. Finally, when the emission view of light suddenly became dominant in Germany around 1795, new chemical experiments were crucial. Reflecting on the mathematical, experimental, and metaphysical aspects of physical optics, Casper Hakfoort provides as an epilogue a general picture of early modern science.

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521035074
ISBN 13 
9780521035071
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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