Optics
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Broader term:Related term:Narrower terms:- Optics -- Congresses
- Optics -- Early works to 1800
- Optics -- Industrial applications
- Optics -- Juvenile literature
- Optics -- Periodicals
- Optics -- Research
- Color
- Diffraction
- Dispersion
- Electron optics
- Geometrical optics
- Interference (Light)
- Micro-optics
- Optical instruments
- Optics in literature
- Perspective
- Photonics
- Physical optics
- Physiological optics
- Polarization (Light)
- Quantum optics
- Reflection (Optics)
- Refraction
- Space optics
- Spectrum analysis
- Visibility
- Wave theory of light
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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III, ed. by Dennis R. Crabtree, R. J. Hanisch, and Jeannette V. Barnes (HTML in Canada)
- Calibrating Hubble Space Telescope: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, November 15-17, 1993, ed. by J. Chris Blades and Samantha J. Osmer (Postscript files at stsci.edu)
- Television Violence and Public Policy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000), ed. by James Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III, ed. by Dennis R. Crabtree, R. J. Hanisch, and Jeannette V. Barnes (HTML in Canada)
- Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light; Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures (first edition, 1704), by Isaac Newton (frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org)
- Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (in Latin; Rome: Sumptibus H. Scheus, 1646), by Athanasius Kircher (page images in Germany)
- Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (author's second edition, in Latin; Nuremberg: J. C. Lochner, 1702), by Johann Zahn
- Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (London: Printed for H. Herringman, 1664), by Robert Boyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (author's second edition, in Latin; Nuremberg: J. C. Lochner, 1702), by Johann Zahn
- Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (author's second edition, in Latin; Nuremberg: J. C. Lochner, 1702), by Johann Zahn
- La Perspective Curieuse: ou, Magie Artificielle des Effets Merveilleux (in French; Paris: P. Billaine, 1638), by Jean François Nicéron (page images in France)
- La Perspective Pratique (second edition, 3 volumes in French; Paris: A. Dezallier, 1679), by Jean Dubreuil
- Maniere Universelle de Mr Desargues, Pour Pratiquer la Perspective par Petit-Pied, Comme le Geometral (in French; Paris: Pierre Des-Hayes, 1648), by Gérard Desargues and Abraham Bosse (page images in Germany)
- New Principles of Linear Perspective: or, The Art of Designing on a Plane the Representation of All Sorts of Objects, in a More General and Simple Method Than Has Been Done Before (London: R. Knaplock, 1719) (page images in Germany)
- New Principles of Linear Perspective: or, The Art of Designing on a Plane the Representation of All Sorts of Objects, in a More General and Simple Method Than Has Been Done Before (third edition; London: J. Ward, 1749), by Brook Taylor and John Colson (multiple formats at Google)
- Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum (2 volumes, in Latin, published 1692-1700), by Andrea Pozzo, illust. by Vincenzo Mariotti
- The Practice of Perspective: or, An Easy Method of Representing Natural Objects According to the Rules of Art (third edition; London: Printed for T. Bowles and J. Bowles, 1743), by Jean Dubreuil, trans. by Ephraim Chambers
- The Practice of Perspective: or, An Easy Method of Representing Natural Objects According to the Rules of Art (fourth edition; includes Hodgson's "Theory of Perspective"; London: Printed for J. and C. Bowles, 1765), by Jean Dubreuil, trans. by Ephraim Chambers, contrib. by James Hodgson
- Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects, etc , in English and Latin (London: J. Sturt, 1707), by Andrea Pozzo, trans. by John James, illust. by John Sturt (page images at E-Rara)
- Stereography: or, A Compleat Body of Perspective, in All its Branches (2 volumes in 1; London : Printed for the author by W. Bowyer, 1738), by John Hamilton (multiple formats at Google)
- Examen des Oeuvres du Sr. Desargues (in French; Paris: M. et I. Henault, 1644), by Jacques Curabelle (multiple formats at Google)
- Dr. Brook Taylor's Principles of Linear Perspective: or, The Art of Designing Upon a Plane the Representation of All Sorts of Objects, As They Appear to the Eye (new edition; London: M. Taylor, 1835), by Brook Taylor, ed. by Joseph Jopling
- Linear Perspective; New Principles of Linear Perspective (2 books published in 1715 and 1719, bound together; some figures and first 16 pages of "Linear Perpective" main text bound out of order), by Brook Taylor (page images at Sapienza Digital Library)
- Brouillon Project d'une Atteinte aux Evenemens des Rencontres du Cone avec un Plan, par L,S,G,D,L (in French; 1639), by Gérard Desargues
- Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
- Optics Express (1997-) (full serial archives)
- Annual Review of Vision Science (partial serial archives)
- Journal of the Optical Society of America (partial serial archives)
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Science: An Investment in the Future, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
- Historical Color Guide: Primitive to Modern Times (New York: W. Helburn, c1938), by Elizabeth Burris-Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Color and its Applications (second edition; New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1921), by Matthew Luckiesh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Goethe's Theory of Colours (based on the 1840 edition), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ed. by Charles Lock Eastlake (illustrated HTML with commentary at theoryofcolor.org)
- Goethe's Theory of Colours: Translated from the German, With Notes (London: J. Murray, 1840), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ed. by Charles Lock Eastlake (multiple formats at Google)
- The Laws of Harmonious Colouring, Adapted to Interior Decorations, Manufactures, and Other Useful Purposes (London: W. S. Orr and Co.; Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1838), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archiuve.org)
- Manual of the Science of Colour: On the True Theory of the Colour-Sensations and the Natural System (London: Chapman and Hall, 1871), by William Benson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Harmonies of Tones and Colours Developed by Evolution (with supplement; London and New York: Marcus Ward and Co., 1883-1885), by F. J. Hughes
- Handbuch der Angewandten Optik (only volume published, in German; Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1891), by Adolph Steinheil and Ernst Voit, contrib. by Carl August von Steinheil and Philipp Ludwig Seidel
- Selected works and commentary, by William Rowan Hamilton (multiple formats in Ireland)
- The Difference Meter for Measuring Interior Quality of Foods and Pigments in Biological Tissues (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1965), by G. S. Birth and K. H. Norris (page images at HathiTrust)
- Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
- Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Linda M. Shires (PDF at Ohio State)
- On the Rationalization of Sight; With an Examination of Three Renaissance Texts on Perspective (papers #8; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938), by William Mills Ivins (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
- Linearperspectiven, Anvendt paa Malerkunsten: En Raekke af Perspectiviske Studier (in Danish; Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1841), by C. W. Eckersberg, contrib. by G. F. Ursin (page images in Germany)
- The Theory and Practice of Perspective, by G. A. Storey (PDF at djm.cc)
- The Rudiments of Drawing Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture (second edition; London: Printed for M. Taylor, 1835), by Richard Brown (multiple formats at Google)
- La Genesi Dello Scorcio nell' Arte Greca (in Italian; Rome: Tip. della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1907), by Alessandro Della Seta
- Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
- Radiation and Optics: An Introduction to the Classical Theory (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1963), by John M. Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
- Diamond Design (1919 original text with notes and corrections by editor in 2001), by Marcel Tolkowsky, ed. by Jasper Paulsen (illustrated HTML with commentary at folds.net)
- Diamond Design: A Study of the Reflection and Refraction of Light in a Diamond (London: E. and F. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1919), by Marcel Tolkowsky
- Diamond Design (1919 original text with notes and corrections by editor in 2001), by Marcel Tolkowsky, ed. by Jasper Paulsen (illustrated HTML with commentary at folds.net)
- On the Relation Between the Index of Refraction and Concentration of Solutions of Sodium Chloride (University of Chicago physics masters thesis, 1920), by Edward Henry Thomas
- Diamond Design: A Study of the Reflection and Refraction of Light in a Diamond (London: E. and F. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1919), by Marcel Tolkowsky
- Handbuch der Angewandten Optik (only volume published, in German; Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1891), by Adolph Steinheil and Ernst Voit, contrib. by Carl August von Steinheil and Philipp Ludwig Seidel
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