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"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

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

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 15/03/1989
    ISBN13: 9780226078861, 978-0226078861
    ISBN10: 0226078868

    Number of Pages: 498

    Non Fiction , Mathematics & Science , Education

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    "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

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