Six Lectures on Light
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Delivered in the United States in 1872 and 1873, these six lectures by the physicist John Tyndall explain how light behaves and why. The first lecture moves from what the ancients knew to reflection, refraction, the speed of light, the rainbow and Newton's work on the colours of sunlight. The next lectures take up the wave theory, interference, and polarization, including the colours seen when crystals are placed in polarized light. A preface of 1885 says the aim was to describe the main laws of light in familiar terms and show the theory underneath them.
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- Author
- John Tyndall
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Pages
- 118
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Popular Science
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