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

Science and Philosophy

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

Xiang Chen

213 pages hardcover

2 editions

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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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