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A Brief History of Light and Those That Lit the Way (Series in Popular Science) (Paperback)

by Richard J. Weiss (Author) "The laser, theorized by Einstein early in the century and fabricated by Ted Maiman in 1960, may not be the Messiah but its impact on..." (more)
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This text traces the interplay of the forces in the history of light from the 17th century to the 1990s. It provides portraits of many of the scientists whose achievements costituted that history, and of major inventors and artistic and literary figures who contributed.