The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century

Author/Contributor(s):	Buchwald, Jed Z
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	03/15/1989
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

No one interested in the history of optics, the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physics, or the general phenomenon of theory change in science can afford to ignore Jed Buchwald's well-structured, highly detailed, and scrupulously researched book. . . . Buchwald's analysis will surely constitute the essential starting point for further work on this important and hitherto relatively neglected episode of theory change.--John Worrall, Isis