Author: Sean F. Johnston

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-05-05

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1420034774

2003 Paul Bunge Prize of the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation for the History of Scientific Instruments Judging the brightness and color of light has long been contentious. Alternately described as impossible and routine, it was beset by problems both technical and social. How trustworthy could such measurements be? Was the best standard of inten