Light visible and invisible : a series of lectures delivered at the Royal institution of Great Britain, at Christmas, 1896, with additional lectures / by Silvanus P. Thompson.

  • Silvanus P. Thompson
Date:
1910
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Credit: Light visible and invisible : a series of lectures delivered at the Royal institution of Great Britain, at Christmas, 1896, with additional lectures / by Silvanus P. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    terms, and illustrated by appropriate models. A similar remark would equally apply to other parts of optics, such as interference and diffraction, which are barely alluded to in the present lectures. Many branches are necessarily omitted altogether from so brief a course: amongst them the entire subject of spectrum analysis, the construction and theory of optical instruments, and the greater part of the subject of colour vision. No attempt was made to include these topics, and no apology is needed for their omission. Whatever value these discourses may possess must depend upon the things they include, not upon those which they do not. At the request of the Publishers the author has added a lecture on Radium which he has several times delivered in different places in 1903-1904, together with the lecture On the Manufacture of Light which was given to a popular audience at the Meeting of the British Associa- tion in the city of York in 1906. London, May 1910.