The rise of the wave theory of light : optical theory and experiment in the early nineteenth century
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The rise of the wave theory of light : optical theory and experiment in the early nineteenth century
University of Chicago Press, 1989
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 457-467
Includes indexes
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"No one interested in the history of optics, the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physics, or the general phenomenon of theory change in science can afford to ignore Jed Buchwald's well-structured, highly detailed, and scrupulously researched book. . . . Buchwald's analysis will surely constitute the essential starting point for further work on this important and hitherto relatively neglected episode of theory change."-John Worrall, Isis
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