The nature of light : with a general account of physical optics / by Eugene Lommel.

By: Lommel, Eugene, 1837-1899.
Material type: materialTypeLabelContinuing resourceSeries: International scientific series [London ed.]: vol. 18Analytics: Show analyticsPublisher: London : Henry S. King & Co., 1875Edition: Second edition.Description: xiii, [1], 356 pages : colour frontispiece, illustrations, diagrams ; 19 cm.Subject(s): OPTICS | LIGHT | ABSORPTION | DISPERSION | GEOMETRICAL OPTICS | FLUORESCENCE | HEAT | INTERFERENCE | LENSES | POLARIZATION | PHYSICS | OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS | REFLECTION | REFRACTION | SPECTROSCOPYHoldings: GRETA POINT: 535.3 LOM
Contents:
Preface -- I. Sources of light -- II. Rectilinear propagation of light -- III. Reflexion of light -- IV. Spherical mirrors -- Appendix to the fourth chapter -- V. Refraction -- Appendix to the fifth chapter -- VI. Lenses -- Appendix to the sixth chapter -- VII. Optical instruments -- VIII. Dispersion of colour -- Appendix to the eighth chapter: theory of the rainbow -- IX. Achromatism -- Appendix to the ninth chapter. Achromatic lenses -- X. Spectrum analysis -- XI. Spectrum analysis of the sun -- XII. Absorption -- XIII. Fluorescence. Phosphorescence. Chemical action -- XIV. Action of heat -- XV. Fresnel’s mirror experiment: undulatory movement -- XVI. Principle of interference. Consequence of Fresnel’s experiment -- XVII. Huyghen’s principle -- XVIII. Dispersion of light. Absorption -- XIX. Diffraction of light -- XX. Colours of thin plates -- XXI. Double diffraction of light -- XXII. Polarisation -- XXIII. Polarising apparatus -- XXIV. Interference owing to double refraction -- XXV. Circular polarisation -- Index.
Summary: "The object of this little work is to give to a large circle of readers an answer, based on the present state of science, to the question, What is the Nature of Light? In the first fourteen Chapters the laws of reflexion, refraction, dispersion, and absorption of light are demonstrated by experiment without reference to any theory of the nature of1ight. This comes forward prominently for the first time in the fifteenth Chapter, in discussing Fresnel's mirror experiment, and the conclusion arrived at being in favour of the undulatory theory, it is shown that this theory is not only in accordance with all the facts hitherto known, but also affords the most satisfactory explanation of the phenomena of double Refraction and polarisation, both of which receive subsequent consideration. Mathematical reasonings are wholly omitted in the text; where these are required or appear to be desirable for the more thorough and complete knowledge of the phenomena described, they are given in the most elementary form, and are ad\led as an appendix: to the Chapters. Numerous wood-cuts are introduced, many of which are taken from the Atlas of Physics of Johann Muller; the majority, however, are new, as is also a chromolithographic plate of spectra."--Preface.
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"With one hundred and eighty-eight illustrations and a plate of spectra in chromolithography." -- title page.

Includes index.

Preface -- I. Sources of light -- II. Rectilinear propagation of light -- III. Reflexion of light -- IV. Spherical mirrors -- Appendix to the fourth chapter -- V. Refraction -- Appendix to the fifth chapter -- VI. Lenses -- Appendix to the sixth chapter -- VII. Optical instruments -- VIII. Dispersion of colour -- Appendix to the eighth chapter: theory of the rainbow -- IX. Achromatism -- Appendix to the ninth chapter. Achromatic lenses -- X. Spectrum analysis -- XI. Spectrum analysis of the sun -- XII. Absorption -- XIII. Fluorescence. Phosphorescence. Chemical action -- XIV. Action of heat -- XV. Fresnel’s mirror experiment: undulatory movement -- XVI. Principle of interference. Consequence of Fresnel’s experiment -- XVII. Huyghen’s principle -- XVIII. Dispersion of light. Absorption -- XIX. Diffraction of light -- XX. Colours of thin plates -- XXI. Double diffraction of light -- XXII. Polarisation -- XXIII. Polarising apparatus -- XXIV. Interference owing to double refraction -- XXV. Circular polarisation -- Index.

"The object of this little work is to give to a large circle of readers an answer, based on the present state of science, to the question, What is the Nature of Light? In the first fourteen Chapters the laws of reflexion, refraction, dispersion, and absorption of light are demonstrated by experiment without reference to any theory of the nature of1ight. This comes forward prominently for the first time in the fifteenth Chapter, in discussing Fresnel's mirror experiment, and the conclusion arrived at being in favour of the undulatory theory, it is shown that this theory is not only in accordance with all the facts hitherto known, but also affords the most satisfactory explanation of the phenomena of double Refraction and polarisation, both of which receive subsequent consideration. Mathematical reasonings are wholly omitted in the text; where these are required or appear to be desirable for the more thorough and complete knowledge of the phenomena described, they are given in the most elementary form, and are ad\led as an appendix: to the Chapters. Numerous wood-cuts are introduced, many of which are taken from the Atlas of Physics of Johann Muller; the majority, however, are new, as is also a chromolithographic plate of spectra."--Preface.

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