From sight to light. The passage from ancient to modern optics

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Authors A. Mark Smith

Publication date 18 August 2015

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) General histories, source books (01A05) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03)

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