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Author Watson, Bruce, 1953- author.

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

Publication Info. New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury USA, 2016.

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Location Call No. Public Note Status
 West Sacramento Adult Nonfiction  535 WAT    CHECK SHELVES
Description xiv, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Content type text txt rdacontent
Format volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography 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.
Summary "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."--Dust jacket.
Subject Light -- History.
Optics -- History.
Light -- Philosophy.
ISBN 9781620405598
1620405598