Jed Z. Buchwald

H170 - Winter, '06

H170, winter, 2006 syllabus

1. Greek, Roman, Arabic

2. Mediaeval

3. Renaissance Linear Perspective

4. Kepler: the Origin of Modern Optics

5. Geometric Imagery During the 17th Century

6. Rays and Lines of Light

Shapiro Hooke

7. Christiaan Huygens

Shapiro Buchwald Huygens

8. Young Isaac Newton, Prisms, and Colors

Shapiro Newton and his critics

9. Newton’s Mathematical Science of Colors

Bechler Shapiro

10. Practical Optics and Broad Theory During the 18th Century

Stewart and Pedersen Cantor and Hakfoort

11. The Discovery of Polarization

Buchwald

12. Thomas Young Reinvents Wave Optics

Kipnis Young

13. Fresnel Diffraction and the Optics of Crystals

Buchwald Buchwald

14. Light Before Electromagnetism