Download or read book A Brief History of Light and Those that Lit the Way written by Richard Jerome Weiss and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text traces the interplay of forces in the history of light from the 17th century to the 1990s. It provides portraits of many of the scientists whose achievements constituted that history, and of major inventors and artistic and literary figures who c.