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    A history of optics from Greek antiquity to the nineteenth century / by Darrigol, Olivier

    Published 2012
    Subjects: “…Optics History.…”
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    The adaptive optics revolution a history / by Duffner, Robert W.

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…Sputnik, reality, and technology -- Early days : the Romans -- Rome and Itek : first adaptive optics systems -- Laser guide stars -- Fugate's Rayleigh guide star experiments -- Lincoln laboratory -- Sharing the gold : astronomical nuggets -- Strategic defense initiative -- Airborne laser -- 3.5-meter military telescope complex : Starfire Optical Range, New Mexico -- 3.67-meter military telescope complex : Maui, Hawaii -- Sodium guide star laser : the future.…”
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    Perspectives : Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England / by Shires, Linda M., 1950-

    Published 2009
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    Spirits unseen the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture /

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Vapours and veils : the edge of the unseen / Christine Gottler -- Poltergeist the prequel : aspects of other worldly disturbances in early modern times / Wolfgang Neuber -- Fire, smoke and vapour, Jan Brueghel's "poetic hell' : ghespoock in early modern European art / Christine Gottler -- Moveable feasts of reason : description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight / Bret Rothstein -- Images in the air : optical games, magic, and imagination / Sven Dupre -- Material gazes and flying images in Marsilio Ficino and Michelangelo / Berthold Hub -- Spirits of love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic discourses of vision / Wietse de Boer -- Painting's enchanting poison : artistic eficacy and the transfer of spirits / Thijs Weststeijn -- "Singe the enchantment for sleepe" : music and bewitched sleep in early modern English drama / Sarah F. …”
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    Instruments for New Music : Sound, Technology, and Modernism / by Patteson, Thomas

    Published 2016
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