Treatise on Light
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0554365472 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 140 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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george said No illustrations. I am very unhappy with this book, and I haven't even read it yet.the only other review of this book says "While the book appears to be just a delightful exercise in geometry"yet no illustrations. without the illustrations the text explaining the illustrations is useless. it is unacceptable to print this book without the illustrations. its like printing a work of Shakespeare, but only every other word.I saw a similar review of a reprint of Einsteins theory of re. Vintage Reprint This is a reprint of the Silvanus P. Thompson English translation of 1912 with the original illustrations."This is the book for which Galileo was imprisoned by the Inquisition.""One of the great scientific classics of the 17th century, this brilliant exposition of the wave theory of light forms the claim to immortality of Christiaan Huygens.""It was meant to be his great philosophical masterpiece, written for the world at large, but the rarity, unreadability, a