By Olivier Darrigol
This name is a long term historical past of optics, from early Greek theories of imaginative and prescient to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave idea of sunshine. it's a transparent and richly illustrated synthesis of a giant quantity of literature, and a good advisor for someone who needs to go into this area.
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