Notes Of A Course Of Nine Lectures On Light: Delivered At The Royal Institution Of Great Britain, April 8-June 3, 1869 - Softcover

John Tyndall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461351498 ISBN 13: 9780461351491

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Notes Of A Course Of Nine Lectures On Light by John Tyndall. This volume gathers the nine lectures delivered at the Royal Institution in 1869, in which the author investigates the nature of light, its propagation, and the physical theories that explain it. He begins with basic propositions about luminous and illuminated bodies, ray geometry, and images formed through small apertures, then moves into shadows, the inverse-square law, and photometry. The book discusses why light requires time to traverse space, the aberration of light, and the laws of reflection and refraction, including plane and curved mirrors and the phenomena of caustics. It then explains the refraction of light, total internal reflection, and the behavior of lenses, vision and the eye, and the mechanism of accommodation and spectacles. The notes also cover the persistence of impressions, the stereoscope, and the broader theory of light, contrasting the emission theory with the undulatory theory of Fresnel and Young, and presenting the ether as the medium of light. Throughout, Tyndall presents clear demonstrations and experimental context that shaped nineteenth-century optics.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461351498
• ISBN 13: 9780461351491
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96