The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air Translation: H.M. Kremer-Priest, Revision: K.E. Brian Jay
Author: Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 362
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Author: Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 362
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 376
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert M. Thorson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014-01-06
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0674728416
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward," Thoreau invites his readers in Walden, "till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality." Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of that hard reality, not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert M. Thorson is interested in Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press. At Walden's climax, Thoreau asks us to imagine a "living earth" upon which all animal and plant life is parasitic. This book examines Thoreau's understanding of the geodynamics of that living earth, and how his understanding informed the writing of Walden. The story unfolds against the ferment of natural science in the nineteenth century, as Natural Theology gave way to modern secular science. That era saw one of the great blunders in the history of American science--the rejection of glacial theory. Thorson demonstrates just how close Thoreau came to discovering a "theory of everything" that could have explained most of the landscape he saw from the doorway of his cabin at Walden. At pivotal moments in his career, Thoreau encountered the work of the geologist Charles Lyell and that of his protégé Charles Darwin. Thorson concludes that the inevitable path of Thoreau's thought was descendental, not transcendental, as he worked his way downward through the complexity of life to its inorganic origin, the living rock.
Author: Dan Burton
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9004153705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this critical edition of Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy, proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere, centuries before Hooke and Newton.
Author: Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 362
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Henry Bragg
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 312
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Published: 1985
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: V. Lakshminarayanan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9401156980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBasic and Clinical Applications of Vision Sciences contains the edited papers presented at the Enoch Vision Science Symposium, April 27-30 1996, which was organized in honor of the pioneer in vision science, Dr Jay M Enoch. Dr Enoch served for twelve years as Dean, School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley. The book is organized along the lines of Dr. Enoch's contributions to vision science, but is not limited to these topics. Of special note, the reader will find papers on important new developments in photoreceptor, ophthalmic and visual optics, retinal imaging, ophthalmic physiology and pathophysiology, visual psychophysics and visual techniques. The papers are grouped into the following sections: photoreceptor optics; ophthalmic and visual optics; binocular vision, developmental vision, eye movements and physiology; ophthalmic dysfunction; visual psychophysics and clinical applications; history of vision science. £/LIST£