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245 10 a| From sight to light :b| the passage from ancient to modern optics /c| A. Mark Smith.;

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505 0 a| The emergence of optics as a science : the Greek and early Greco-Roman background -- Ptolemy and the flowering of Greek optics -- Greco-Roman and early Arabic developments -- Alhacen and the grand synthesis -- Developments in the medieval Latin West -- The assimilation of perspectivist optics during the later Middle Ages and Renaissance -- The Keplerian turn and its technical background -- The seventeenth-century response.;

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From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics / A. Mark Smith.

Author/creator	Smith, A. Mark author.
Format	Electronic
Publication	Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Description	1 online resource (470 pages) : illustrations
Supplemental Content	Click to View
Subjects	Optics--History.

Contents	The emergence of optics as a science : the Greek and early Greco-Roman background -- Ptolemy and the flowering of Greek optics -- Greco-Roman and early Arabic developments -- Alhacen and the grand synthesis -- Developments in the medieval Latin West -- The assimilation of perspectivist optics during the later Middle Ages and Renaissance -- The Keplerian turn and its technical background -- The seventeenth-century response.
Local note	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description	Description based on print version record.
Issued in other form	Print version: Smith, A. Mark. From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2015 9780226174761
Genre/form	Electronic books.
ISBN	9780226174938 (e-book)

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