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Measuring Shadows
In Measuring Shadows , Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Kepler’s ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions.
Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.
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A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light. It is a clear and richly illustrated synthesis of a large amount of literature, and a reliable and efficient guide for anyone who wishes to enter this domain.
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Ibn al-Haytham : the man who discovered how we see
Celebrated in a film featuring Omar Sharif in his final role, meet the scientist known as the \"Father of Optics,\" Ibn al-Haytham! During the golden age of science, knowledge, and invention in Muslim civilization -- also known as the \"Dark Ages\" in Western Europe -- this incredible scholar discovered how we see and set the stage for the methods we now know as the scientific process.
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The Adaptive Optics Revolution
Duffner has compiled the history of the most revolutionary breakthrough in astronomy since Galileo pointed his telescope skyward--the technology that will greatly expand our understanding of the universe.
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How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap
A collection of engaging essays that discusses odd and unusual topics in optics.
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