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Theories of Light: From Descartes to Newton
by Sabra, A. I
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0521284368
- ISBN 13
- 9780521284363
- Seller
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is a good copy in Soft cover. First edition. 365pp. with index. Illustrated with line drawings. Light kubbing around edges, small creases on edges. Never before has a historian with Sabra's knowledge, insight, and analytic and linguistic skill tackled 17th-century optics as the subject of a book-length study....Theories of Light is now the touchstone and starting point of future research on the subject..
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- Bookseller
- First Landing Books & Art (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57923
- Title
- Theories of Light: From Descartes to Newton
- Author
- Sabra, A. I
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0521284368
- ISBN 13
- 9780521284363
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Newton's Theory of Light and Colors, Fermats Principle of Least Time, Huygens Wave Theory
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science/ Technology;
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