A Short Bright Flash: Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse by Theresa Levitt

A Short Bright Flash: Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse

Theresa Levitt

288 pages 2013

3 editions

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
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Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827) shocked the scientific elite with his unique understanding of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a brilliant feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times brighter, farther, and more efficientl...

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