Synopsis
An Unabridged, Digitally Enlarged Printing; Chapters Include: THE POSITION AND SIZE OF THE IMAGE - Rays And Waves Of Light - Reflexion - Refraction (Fermat's Principle) - Object And Image - Image Formation By Direct Refraction At The Spherical Interface Between Two Media - Image Formation By Direct Refraction At Any Number Of Spherical Surfaces On The Same Axis - The Helmholtz-Clausius Equation - The Transformation Of The Object-Space Into The Image-Space - The Measure Of Convergence Of A Pencil - The Lens - The Thin Lens - The Spherical Mirror - Astigmatism - Primary And Secondary Foci - Oblique Refraction Of A Thin Pencil At A Single Spherical Surface - The Entrance-Pupil And The Field Of View - The Magnifying Power Of A Visual Instrument - THE DEFECTS OF THE IMAGE - The Removal Of Astigmatism From An Optical Instrument With A Narrow Stop - The Removal Of Astigmatism From An Optical Instrument At Full Aperture - Seidel's First Condition (The Removal Of Spherical Aberration) - Evaluation Of The Spherical Aberration In Uncorrected Instruments - Coma And Its Removal (The Fraunhofer Condition) - The Sine Condition - Aplanatism Derivation Of The Fraunhofer Condition From The Sine Condition - Astigmatism And Seidel's Third Condition - Petzval's Condition For Flatness Of Field - The Condition For Absence Of Distortion - Herschel's Condition - The Impossibility Of A Perfect Optical Instrument - Removal Of The Primary Spectrum - Achromatism Of The Focal Length - The Higher Chromatic Corrections - The Resolving Power Of A Telescope Objective - The Resolving Power Of Spectroscopes - SKETCH OF THE CHIEF OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS - The Photographic Objective - Telephotography - The Telescope Objective - Magnifying Glasses And Eyepieces - The Visual Astronomical Refractor - The Astronomical Reflector - Field, Marine, And Opera Glasses - The Microscope - The Prism Spectroscope
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Book Description
Originally published in 1907, this book provides a concise account regarding the theory of optical instruments. The text was written with the aim of leading 'directly from the first elements of Optics to those parts of the subject which are of greatest importance to workers with optical instruments'.
About the Author
Whittaker, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh.
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