02580nam a22003975i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001400153072001600167072002300183072001500206100008400221245008200305250001800387264007500405300006600480336002600546337002600572338003600598347002400634505026300658520099000921650001201911650001301923650002601936650004201962710003402004773002602038776003602064776003602100856004602136978-3-031-56917-3DE-He21320251030112706.0cr nn 008mamaa240802s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315691737 a10.1007/978-3-031-56917-32doi 4aQC350-467 7aPHJ2bicssc 7aSCI0530002bisacsh 7aPHJ2thema1 aGrammatikakis, George.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut14aThe Autobiography of Lighth[electronic resource] /cby George Grammatikakis.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXXII, 292 p. 21 illus., 18 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1. Light's Virtues and Vices -- Chapter 2. Light's Revelation of Time and Space -- Chapter 3. The Quantum Realm of the Microcosm -- Chapter 4. Light Shakes Hands with Life and Art -- Chapter 5.The Universe: The Empire of Light -- Chapter 6. Epilogue.  aThis book brings to life one of the most fundamental entities in the universe: the electromagnetic waves that we perceive as light. With his gift for narrative, the author explains the nature of light and the long history of its influence on human ideas, technology and culture. From early attempts to understand vision and colours, through relativity and quantum theory, visual art and laser technology to the birth of stars and attempts to photograph their end, readers will come to appreciate the central role of light not only in human history, but also in the history of the cosmos. This grand tour ends in a flourish, with an epilogue written in the first person by the protagonist itself: a true Autobiography of Light. All chapters in the book are relatively self-contained, allowing readers to dip freely in and out. What makes this captivating story so original is the effort made to point out the affinity between the study of light and achievements in the realm of culture. 0aOptics. 0aScience.14aOptics and Photonics.24aFoundations of Physics and Cosmology.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303156916608iPrinted edition:z978303156918040uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56917-3