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Acknowledgements | ||
1 | Introduction | 1 |
1 | Condensation and presentism in the historiography of optics | 2 |
2 | Terminology and outline of this book | 5 |
2 | The debate on colours, 1672-1720 | 11 |
1 | Newton's theory of colours | 11 |
2 | Reception of Newton's theory of colours | 16 |
3 | Theoretical traditions in physical optics, 1700-45 | 27 |
1 | Development of the emission tradition | 27 |
2 | Development of the medium tradition | 49 |
3 | The relationship of the optical traditions | 65 |
4 | Euler's 'Nova theoria' (1746) | 72 |
1 | Euler's place in the medium tradition | 73 |
2 | Arguments for and against | 76 |
3 | The content of the theory | 90 |
4 | The influence and significance of the 'Nova theoria' | 114 |
5 | The debate in Germany on the nature of light, 1740-95 | 117 |
1 | Introduction | 117 |
2 | Early reactions to Euler's argumentation | 129 |
3 | Physical phenomena | 135 |
4 | Colour and phosphorescence | 151 |
5 | The chemical effects of light | 161 |
6 | Chemistry turns the scales | 169 |
6 | Epilogue: Optics as a minor of eighteenth-century science | 176 |
1 | Kuhn's outline: Mathematical and experimental traditions | 176 |
2 | An addition to the scheme: The natural philosophical tradition | 179 |
3 | The three-fold division and eighteenth-century optics | 185 |
4 | On early modern science | 190 |
Notes | 193 | |
Bibliography | 219 | |
Index | 235 |
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