Base Information
Volume
V52 - N2 / 2019 Ordinario
Reference
51019:1:8
DOI
http://doi.org/10.7149/OPA.52.2.51019
Language
Spanish
Keywords
Principle of Optics, optics history, Max Born, Emil Wolf.
Abstract
The Principle of Optics is definitely the most used optical book in the last sixty years and one of the great books of science of the twentieth century. It is, in fact, a reworking and extension of a book in German (Optik) previously written by Max Born. In this article, we intend to explain how the genesis of the Optik was and its subsequent transformation into the Principle of Optics.
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