This book is about how light was made to count. It explores a seemingly simple question: How was the brightness of light-casually judged by everyone but seldom considered a part of science before the 20th century-transformed into a measurable and trustworthy quantity? Why did the description of colo
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FEDERICO BAROCCI, INVENTOR OF LIGHT AND COLOR
β Scribed by Ian Verstegen
- Book ID
- 125741094
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 741 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0737-4453
- DOI
- 10.2307/23207926
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