Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Throwing new light on Kepler’s contribution to optics

A. Mark Smith: From sight to light. The passage from ancient to modern optics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017, xi + 457 pp, US$36.00 PB.

  • Book Review
  • Published:
Metascience Aims and scope

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Ariotti, Piero E. 1973. A Little-Known Early 17th Century Treatise on Vision: Benedetto Castelli’s Discorso sopra la vista. Annals of Science 30: 1–30.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gauss, Carl Friedrich, and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel. 1880. Briefwechsel zwischen Gauss und Bessel. Leipzig: W. Engelmann.

    Google Scholar 

  • Katsos, Isidoros. 2019. Chasing the Light: What Happened to the Ancient Theories? ISIS 110(2): 270–282.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kuhn, Thomas S. 2000. The Road Since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970–1993, with an Autobiographical Interview. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Molyneux, William. 1687. Concerning the Apparent Magnitude of the Sun and Moon, or the Apparent Distance of Two Stars, When Nigh the Horizon, and When Higher Elevated. Philosophical Transactions (1683–1775) 16: 314–323.

    Google Scholar 

  • Newman, William R. 2010. Newton’s Early Optical Theory and its Debt to Chemistry. In Lumière et vision dans les sciences et dans les arts, de l’Antiquité´ du XVIIe siècle, ed. D. Jacquart and M. Hochmann. Geneve: Librairie Droz.

    Google Scholar 

  • Priestley, Joseph. 1772. The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours. London: Printed for J. Johnson.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shapiro, Alan E. 2008. Images: Real and Virtual, Projected and Perceived, from Kepler to Dechales. Early Science and Medicine 13(3): 270–312.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smith, A.Mark. 1987. Descartes’s Theory of Light and Refraction: A Discourse on Method. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 77(3): i-92.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smith, A.Mark. 2019. Seeing the Light: A Response to “Chasing the Light”. ISIS 110(2): 283–289.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wade, Nicholas J. 1998. Light and Sight Since Antiquity. Perception 27: 637–670.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zemplén, Gábor Á. 2019. Diagrammatic Carriers and the Acceptance of Newton’s Optical Theory. Synthese 196(9): 3577–3593.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Argumentation Theory and Marketing Research, ELTE Institute of Business Economics, Rákóczi út 7, Rm 415, Budapest, 1088, Hungary

    Gábor Á. Zemplén

  2. Morals and Science ‘Lendület’ Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary

    Gábor Á. Zemplén

Authors
  1. Gábor Á. Zemplén
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Gábor Á. Zemplén.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Zemplén, G.Á. Throwing new light on Kepler’s contribution to optics. Metascience 29, 237–240 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00505-3

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00505-3

Search

Navigation