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

by Jed Z. Buchwald

"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

• ISBN10: 0226078841
• ISBN13: 9780226078847
• Publish Date: 4 January 1989
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: University of Chicago Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 498
• Language: English
• URL: http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780226078847