Applied Optics and Optical Design. Part One and: Part Two (so complete in 2 volumes). Part two Edited and completed by Rudolf Kinkslake.

Conrady, A. E.:

ISBN 10: 0486670082 / ISBN 13: 9780486670089

Published by Dover Publications, Incorporated. New York First published 1957 and 1960., 1957

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Two Volumes. 841, (16) pages with together193 text figures and 2 illustrations, Illustraterd original softcover binding. Good condition. 21,5x14,5 cm * Alexander Eugen Conrady (January 27, 1866 June 16, 1944) was an optical designer, academician, and textbook author. Work in optical design. Conrady himself records in the preface to his magnum opus, Applied Optics and Optical Design, that his optical work during these years led to "a large number of new types of telescopic, microscopic, and photographic lens systems.followed during the great war by the design of most of the new forms of submarine periscopes and of some other Service instruments." The success of this work led to his appointment in 1917 to the principal teaching post of the newly founded Technical Optics Department at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London, a position he occupied until 1931. Conrady's teaching proved seminal, since he was able to take the arcane and rather disorganized discipline of optical design and establish it on a systematic, didactic basis, applying many of his newly devised procedures and theoretical insights, e.g., the doctrine of the optical path length (OPL) and optical path difference (OPD), which he had published during the period from 1904 to 1920. Many important optical designers of the 20th centurymost notably his son-in-law, Rudolf Kingslake, as well as his eldest daughter, Hilda Conrady Kingslakereceived his instruction and utilized his methods. Applied Optics: By 1929, Conrady had published twenty-nine scientific papers, most of them relating to optical design.[7] These along with his decade of university teaching and about 35 years of practical experience in optical design and manufacture led to the publication of his most important work, a book laying out the systematic basis for the practical design of all kinds of optical instruments: Applied Optics and Optical Design, (Oxford UP, 1929). The book became a classicwidely used and referred toand although its computational methods have been totally superseded by modern computer "ray-tracing" lens-design programs, its theoretical and mathematical insights remain valid and the book continues in print today. (Quelle Wikipedia) ---- Alexander Eugen Conrady (18661944) war ein bedeutender deutsch-britischer Wissenschaftler und Optik-Experte, der als Pionier auf dem Gebiet des optischen Designs gilt. Wissenschaftliche Karriere & Wirken. Akademische Laufbahn: Er war Professor am Imperial College London, wo er ab 1917 die Abteilung für Technische Optik mitbegründete und leitete. Hauptwerk: Sein zweibändiges Werk Applied Optics and Optical Design gilt bis heute als Standardwerk für das Design optischer Linsen und Teleskopsysteme. Theorie & Praxis: Er entwickelte systematische Methoden zur Berechnung von Linsenfehlern (Aberrationen) und legte die mathematischen Grundlagen für das moderne Optik-Design vor dem Zeitalter der Computer. Persönliches & Vermächtnis: Familie: Seine Tochter Hilda Conrady Kingslake war ebenfalls eine bekannte Optikerin. Sein Schwiegersohn Rudolf Kingslake war ein führender Optik-Designer bei Kodak und Professor an der University of Rochester. Ehrungen: Zu seinem Gedenken vergibt die SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) jährlich den A.E. Conrady Award für herausragende Leistungen im Bereich des optischen Designs. (Quelle KI) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Applied Optics and Optical Design. Part One and: Part Two (so complete in 2 volumes). Part two Edited and completed by Rudolf Kinkslake.
• Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated. New York First published 1957 and 1960.
• Publication Date: 1957
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486670082
• ISBN 13: 9780486670089
• Binding: Soft cover
• Weight: 1000 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Optik

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"For the optical engineer it is an indispensable work." — Journal, Optical Society of America
"As a practical guide this book has no rival." — Transactions, Optical Society
"A noteworthy contribution," — Nature (London)
This two-volume paperback republication of A. E. Conrady's classic work presents his complete system of optical design. The only work of its kind in English, this set leads the reader step by step from the fundamental concepts of geometrical and physical optics up to the point where he can design the simpler optical systems without aid. It remains the only detailed work on the subject written with the needs of the practical designer and the self-taught constantly in mind. For most of the text, no mathematics above trigonometry is needed; occasional sections require some calculus and analytical geometry.
Part I covers all ordinary ray-tracing methods, together with the complete theory of primary aberrations and as much of higher aberration as is needed for the design of telescopes, low-power microscopes and simple optical systems. Chapters: Fundamental Equations, Spherical Aberration, Physical Aspect of Optical Images, Chromatic Aberration, Design of Achromatic Object-Glasses, Extra-Axial Image Points, The Optical Sine Theorem, Trigonometric Tracing of Oblique Pencils, General Theory of Perfect Optical Systems, and Ordinary Eyepieces.
Part II extends the coverage to the systematic study and design of practically all types of optical systems, with special attention to high-power microscope objectives and anastigmatic photographic objectives. Edited and completed from the author's manuscript by Rudolf Kingslake, Director of Optical Design, Eastman Kodak Company. Chapters: Additional Solutions by the Thin-Lens Method, Optical Path Differences, Optical Path Differences at an Axial Image Point, Optical Tolerances, Chromatic Aberration as an Optical Path Difference, The Matching Principle and the Design of Microscope Objectives, Primary Aberrations of Oblique Pencils, Analytical Solutions for Simple Systems with Remote Stop, Symmetrical Photographic Objectives, and Unsymmetrical Photographic Objectives.