This book covers all aspects of waves and optics ranging from one dimensional waves in a vibrating string, two dimensional waves in a vibrating membrane, both of which are transverse, three dimensional electromagneticwaves generated by radiating antennas and longitudinal sound/p…
The nature of light -- Photometry -- Reflection & refraction -- Simple optical instruments -- Microscope and telescope -- The photographic camera -- Appendix -- Conventions and notations.
This first volume of the series Lectures in Optics serves to introduce the simplest optical phenomena and the simplest optical instruments. Rectilinear propagation, reflection, and refraction dominate optical effects in nature and are essential to understanding the function of s…
"This fourth volume of the series Lectures in Optics provides a comprehensive coverage of the field of Visual Optics, which is the field of optics as it applies to the function of the eye. Itself, the eye is a magnificent yet very complicated optical system. The optics part of v…
"A.C. Crombie was one of the best known writers on the history of Science. Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought brings together a coherent body of essays that complement his books and are of independent value. A.C. Crombie traces general themes in the d…