Light : a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age /
"Delving into mythology, religion, philosophy, painting, and science, 'Light' captures the wonder and awe of humanity's study of light across three millennia of discovery"--Front jacket flap.
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- "This light is come" : myths of creation and first light
- "The thing you call light" : early philosophers from Greece to China
- :The highest bliss" : the millennium of divine radiance
- "A glass like a glittering star" : Islam's Golden Age
- "Bright is the noble edifice" : paradise in the Middle Ages
- Chiaro e scuro : light and dark on canvas
- "Investigate with me what light is" : the Scientific Revolution and the Century of Celestial Light
- "In my darken'd chamber" : Isaac Newton and "Opticks"
- "A wild and harmonized tune" : the Romantics and the light seductive
- Undulations : particle vs. wave
- Lumière : France's dazzling century
- "Little globe of sunshine" : electricity conquers the night
- c: Einstein and the quanta, particle, and wave
- "Catching up with our dreams" : lasers and other everyday wonders.