Author: Richard Cockburn MaclaurinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Optics, Physical
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Theory of Light
Author: Richard Cockburn MaclaurinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Optics, Physical
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A Treatise on Physical Optics
Author: Alfred Barnard BassetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physical optics
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Treatise on Physiological Optics
Author: Hermann von HelmholtzPublisher:
ISBN: 9780486442648
Category : Physiological optics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The most important work ever produced in the field of physiological optics, this classic is a model of scientific method and logical procedure, and it remains unmatched in its thorough and accessible approach. This is the second in a three-volume republication of the definitive English translation of Handbuch der Physiologischen Optik, originally published by The Optical Society of America in 1924 and containing everything that was known about physiological optics up until that time. The substratum consists of the data that Helmholtz furnished in the two nineteenth-century German editions that appeared during his lifetime. These volumes also contain extensive supplementary matter that Nagel, Gullstrand, and Kries incorporated in the third German edition of 1911, as well as significant new material prepared for the 1924 English translation by C. Ladd-Franklin, Gullstrand, and Kries, with copious annotations by James P. C. Southall that brought the work up to date with current research. The first volume in this series explores the dioptrics of the eye; Volume II examines the sensations of vision, including stimulation by light; simple and compound colors; intensity and duration of sensation of light; and variations of sensitivity and contrast. Appendixes cover later findings on adaptation, twilight vision, and the duplicity theory; normal and anomalous color systems and theories of vision; and the nature of color sensations. The succeeding volume considers perceptions of vision.
Treatise On Light
Author: Christiaan HuygensPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752308168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Treatise On Light by Christiaan Huygens
Theory of Light
Author: Maclaurin Richard C.Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243756049
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Imaging Optics
Author: Joseph BraatPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428088
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 987
Book Description
This comprehensive and self-contained text for researchers and professionals presents a detailed account of optical imaging from the viewpoint of both ray and wave optics.
Measuring Shadows
Author: Raz Chen-MorrisPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027107731X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Kepler’s ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions. Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.
Geometric Optics on Phase Space
Author: Kurt Bernardo WolfPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540220398
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Symplectic geometry, well known as the basic structure of Hamiltonian mechanics, is also the foundation of optics. In fact, optical systems (geometric or wave) have an even richer symmetry structure than mechanical ones (classical or quantum). The symmetries underlying the geometric model of light are based on the symplectic group. Geometric Optics on Phase Space develops both geometric optics and group theory from first principles in their Hamiltonian formulation on phase space. This treatise provides the mathematical background and also collects a host of useful methods of practical importance, particularly the fractional Fourier transform currently used for image processing. The reader will appreciate the beautiful similarities between Hamilton's mechanics and this approach to optics. The appendices link the geometry thus introduced to wave optics through Lie methods. The book addresses researchers and graduate students.
A Treatise on Optics
Author: David BrewsterGeometrical and Instrumental Optics
Author: Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080860133
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Geometrical and Instrumental Optics