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Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

Sir Isaac Newton

1687 ★ 3.9

Introduction to adaptive optics

Robert K. Tyson

2000

Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light

John Conduitt

1704

WDM technologies

Masahiko Fujiwara, Achyut K. Dutta

2002

Principles of electron optics

P. W. Hawkes, E. Kasper, Peter W. Hawkes

1989

Fundamentals of Micro-Optics

Hans Zappe

2010

Rainbows

David Whitfield

2007

Principles of physical optics

Charles A Bennett, Charles A. Bennett

2008

Spatial filtering velocimetry

Y. Aizu, T. Asakura

2005

Vavilov-Cherenkov and synchrotron radiation

G. N. Afanasiev

2004

Optical data processing

A. R. Shulman

1970

Fundamentals of waves, optics, and modern physics

Hugh D. Young

1976

Neutron optics

Varley F. Sears

1989

Vision: human and electronic

Rose, Albert

1973

An essay upon single vision with two eyes

William Charles Wells

1792

Probability, statistical optics, and data testing

B. Roy Frieden

1991

A manual of naval prize law

Lushington, Godfrey Sir

1866

Schaum's outline of theory and problems of optics

Eugene Hecht

1975

Color science

Günter Wyszecki, W. S. Stiles

1982

Why the sky is blue

Götz Hoeppe

2007

Introduction to information optics

Yu, Francis T. S., Suganda Jutamulia

2001

Image processing, analysis, and machine vision

Vaclav Hlavac, Milan Sonka, Roger Boyle

1999

Lights, lenses, and lasers

Melvin Berger

1987

Optical holography

P Hariharan

1986

The world and other writings

René Descartes

1998

Light

Bruce Watson

2016

Visual optics and refraction

David D. Michaels

1980

Microwave Optics

S. Cornbleet

1976

Electricity, Magnetism, and Light

Wayne M. Saslow

2002

Applied optics and optical design

A. E. Conrady

1957

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