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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Table of Contents:
- 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.