How the ray gun got its zap : : odd excursions into optics / / Stephen R. Wilk.
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Place / Publishing House: | Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, [2013] 2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages) :; illustrations |
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245 | 1 | 0 | |a How the ray gun got its zap : |b odd excursions into optics / |c Stephen R. Wilk. |
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264 | 4 | |c 2013 | |
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504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a I. History -- Ancient Optics : Magnification Without Lenses -- The Solar Weapon of Archimedes -- Claudius Ptolemy's Law of Refraction -- Antonio de Ulloa's Mystery -- The Miracle of St. Gascoigne -- Rays of the Sun -- Roy G. Biv -- George Christoph Lichtenberg -- Hopkinson's Silk Handkerchief -- First Light : Thomas Melville and the Beginnings of Spectroscopy -- Mediocrity and Illumination -- Even If You Can't Draw a Straight Line -- A Sea Change -- Thomas Pearsall and the Ultraviolet -- If at First You Don't Succeed -- More than a Burner -- Apply Light Pressure -- Sound Movies, the World's Fair, and Stellar Spectroscopy -- Deja vu -- The Magic Lantern of Omar Khayyam -- II. Weird Science -- The Yellow Sun Paradox -- Once in a Blue Moon -- Chromatic Dispersions -- The Eye in the Spiral -- Retroreflectors -- Yes, I Was Right! It Is Obvious! -- Edible Lasers -- Pyrotechnic Lasers -- Defunct Lasers -- The Phantom Laser -- The Case of the Oily Mirrors; A Locked Room Mystery -- Pinhole Glasses -- Undulations -- III. Pop Culture -- This is Your Cat on Lasers -- Dord -- Zap! -- Mystic Cameras -- Playing With Light -- I Must Find That Tractor Beam -- The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Starbow -- Diamonds in the Dark -- A Popular History of the Laser -- Pop Culture Errors in Optics -- Pop Spectrum -- The Telephote -- Afterword. | |
588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
650 | 0 | |a Optics. | |
650 | 0 | |a Optics |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Optics |v Biography. | |
650 | 0 | |a Optics |x Social aspects |x History. | |
655 | 4 | |a Electronic books. | |
776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Wilk, Stephen R. |t How the ray gun got its zap : odd excursions into optics. |d Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013] |h vi, 263 pages |z 9780199948017 |w (DLC) 2013009902 |
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