Displaying 1 of 1 2016 Format: Book Author: Watson, Bruce, 1953- author. Title: Light : a radiant history, from creation to the quantum age / Bruce Watson. Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2016. Description: xiv, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm Summary: "Delving into mythology, religion, philosophy, painting, and science, 'Light' captures the wonder and awe of humanity's study of light across three millennia of discovery"--Front jacket flap. Subjects: Light -- History. Optics -- History. Light -- Philosophy. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-271) and index. Contents: "This light is come" : myths of creation and first light -- "The thing you call light" : early philosophers from Greece to China -- :The highest bliss" : the millennium of divine radiance -- "A glass like a glittering star" : Islam's Golden Age -- "Bright is the noble edifice" : paradise in the Middle Ages -- Chiaro e scuro : light and dark on canvas -- "Investigate with me what light is" : the Scientific Revolution and the Century of Celestial Light -- "In my darken'd chamber" : Isaac Newton and "Opticks" -- "A wild and harmonized tune" : the Romantics and the light seductive -- Undulations : particle vs. wave -- Lumière : France's dazzling century -- "Little globe of sunshine" : electricity conquers the night -- c: Einstein and the quanta, particle, and wave -- "Catching up with our dreams" : lasers and other everyday wonders. ISBN: 9781620405598 1620405598 Other Number: 907966073 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 559374 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 535 Watson Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
