The Net Advance of Physics RETRO:
OPTICS

Optics in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Most material in Net Advance Retro antedates 1920. It may be obsolete or incorrect. For more recent technical information, please consult the Optics page at the regular Net Advance site.

• General: Introductory:
  • The Philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton Explained in Six Dialogues on Light and Colour between a Lady and the Author by Count Francesco Algarotti [Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1765] Notes to Assist the Memory in Various Sciences by Walter Hamilton [London: John Murray, 1827]
  • Elements of Acoustics, Light, and Heat by Wm. Lees [London: Wm. Collins, 1876]
  • Acoustics, Light, and Heat; intended as an Introduction to the Study of Physical Science adapted to the Requirements of Science and Art Department (Elementary Stage), and Various Other Examining Bodies by Thomas W. Piper [London: Geo. Philip, 1880]
  • On Light by Sir George Gabriel Stokes Volume I --- Volume II [London: Macmillan, 1884-]
  • Sound, Light and Heat by Mark R. Wright [London: Longmans, Green, 1887]
  • Lessons in Heat and Light by D. E. Jones [London: Macmillan, 1892]
  • Elementary Lessons in Heat, Light, & Sound by D. E. Jones [London: Macmillan, 1905]
  • A Short University Course in Electricity, Sound, and Light by R. A. Millikan and John Mills [Boston: Ginn, 1908]

• General: Advanced:
  • Vorlesungen über die mathematische Optik by Gustav Robert Kirchhoff [Leipzig: Teubner, 1891]
  • Lehrbuch der Optik by Paul Drude [Leipzig: Hirzel, 1906] English translation of earlier edition: The Theory of Optics [London: Longmans, Green, 1902]

• General: Apparatus:
  • Instruments for Natural Philosophy: Optics by Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. [Modern photographs of antique instruments. There is a related page about recreational optics, i.e. kaleidoscopes, praxinoscopes, &c.]

• LABORATORY MANUALS FOR STUDENTS:
  • Physical Laboratory Experiments (Mechanics, Optics and Heat), printed for the use of students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by H. M. Goodwin [Boston: Geo. Ellis, 1917]

• General: PROBLEM SETS FOR STUDENTS:
  • Heat and Light Problems by R. Wallace Stewart [London University Correspondence College, 1890]

• Aspects: SPECTROSCOPY; TELESCOPES;

• Aspects: ABERRATION:
  • A Theorem of the Aberration of the Rays of Light Refracted Through a Lens, on Account of the Imperfection of the Spherical Figure by Rev. Nevil Maskelyne [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 52, 17 (1761)]
  • Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels [1842] by Christian Doppler [Prague: KBGW, 1903]

• Aspects: CAMERA LUCIDA:
  • Camera Lucida by Charles Jasper Joly [Entry in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica]

• Aspects: KALEIDOSCOPES:
  • Kaleidoscope by Charles Jasper Joly [Entry in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica]

• Aspects: MICROSCOPES:
  • The Telescope and Microscope by Rev. Thomas Dick [New York: Lane & Scott, 1852]

• Aspects: POLARISATION:
  • Instruments for Natural Philosophy: Polarized Light by Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. [Modern photographs of antique instruments.]

  • Polarisation of the Light Scattered by Mercury Vapour Near the Resonance Periodicity by Lord Rayleigh [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 102, 190 (1922)]

• Aspects: RADIATION PRESSURE: Introductory:
  • The Pressure of Light by J. H. Poynting [London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1910]

• Aspects: VISION:
  • An Attempt to Explain a Difficulty in the Theory of Vision, Depending on the Different Refrangibility of Light by Rev. Nevil Maskelyne [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 79, 256 (1789)]

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