TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watson,Bruce
TI  - Light: a radiant history from creation to the quantum age 
SN  - 9781620405598
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY, USA
PB  - Bloomsbury USA
KW  - Light
KW  - History
KW  - Optics
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-271) and index; "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
N2  - "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."--Dust jacket
ER  -