Book ID: CBB000044234

Optics in the age of Euler: Conceptions of the nature of light, 1700-1795 (1995)

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Hakfoort, Casper (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1995
Physical Details: vii + 243 pp.; notes; bibl.; index

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Review Harman, P.M. (1995) Review of "Optics in the age of Euler: Conceptions of the nature of light, 1700-1795". European Journal of Physics (p. 246). unapi

Review Steffens, H. (1995) Review of "Optics in the age of Euler: Conceptions of the nature of light, 1700-1795". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 652-53). unapi

Review Sutton, M.A. (1996) Review of "Optics in the age of Euler: Conceptions of the nature of light, 1700-1795". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (p. 111). unapi

Review Cantor, G. (1996) Review of "Optics in the age of Euler: Conceptions of the nature of light, 1700-1795". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 236-38). unapi

Review Jonsell, S. (1996) Review of "Optics in the age of Euler: Conceptions of the nature of light, 1700-1795". Lychnos (pp. 337-38). unapi

Review Kipnis, N. (1997) Review of "Optics in the age of Euler: Conceptions of the nature of light, 1700-1795". Technology and Culture (pp. 968-69). unapi

Review Shapiro, A.E. (1997) Review of "Optics in the age of Euler: Conceptions of the nature of light, 1700-1795". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 96-97). unapi

Review Pedersen, K.M. (1998) Review of "Optics in the age of Euler: Conceptions of the nature of light, 1700-1795". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 362-64). unapi

Review Giudice, F. (1996) Review of "Optics in the age of Euler: Conceptions of the nature of light, 1700-1795". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (pp. 370-75). unapi

Review Duck, M.J. (1997) Review of "Optics in the age of Euler: Conceptions of the nature of light, 1700-1795". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 103-5). unapi

Review Wachelder, J. (1997) Review of "Optics in the age of Euler: Conceptions of the nature of light, 1700-1795". Gewina (pp. 35-40). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Home, Roderick W.
Habicht, Walter
Euler, Leonhard
Sylvio R. Bistafa
Sznajder, Roman
Dora Musielak
Journals
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Studia Historiae Scientiarum
Science and Education
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
Perspectives on Science
European Physical Journal H
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Springer Nature
Steiner
Springer-Verlag
Springer
Rodopi
Princeton University Press
Concepts
Optics
Physics
Mathematics
Mechanics
Lenses
Astronomy
People
Euler, Leonhard
Klingenstierna, Samuel
Ehler, Carl Gottlieb
Poniatowski, Stanislaw
Newton, Isaac
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de
Time Periods
18th century
Enlightenment
17th century
Places
Poland
Slovenia
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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