Instrumental Traditions and Theories of Light: The Uses of Instruments in the Optical Revolution by Xiang Chen

Instrumental Traditions and Theories of Light: The Uses of Instruments in the Optical Revolution

Science and Philosophy

Xiang Chen

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An analysis of the optical revolution in the context of early 19th century Britain. Far from merely involving the replacement of one optical theory by another, the revolution also involved substantial changes in instruments and the practices that ...

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