17 books
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6 voters
Optics Books
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by (shelved 7 times as optics)
avg rating 4.13 — 92 ratings — published 1980

by (shelved 6 times as optics)
avg rating 4.27 — 56 ratings — published 1968

by (shelved 6 times as optics)
avg rating 4.24 — 45 ratings — published

by (shelved 4 times as optics)
avg rating 3.89 — 80 ratings — published

by (shelved 4 times as optics)
avg rating 3.78 — 32 ratings — published 1976

by (shelved 3 times as optics)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 3 times as optics)
avg rating 4.31 — 430 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 3 times as optics)
avg rating 3.61 — 88 ratings — published 1987

by (shelved 3 times as optics)
avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 1985

by (shelved 3 times as optics)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 3 times as optics)
avg rating 3.74 — 137 ratings — published 1968

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.82 — 11 ratings — published

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 1969

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.00 — 13 ratings — published 1992

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1997

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 1978

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.44 — 27 ratings — published 1991

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published 1985

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 2.00 — 3 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2006

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 3.65 — 17 ratings — published 1997

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 3.00 — 7 ratings — published 1987

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.26 — 23 ratings — published 1996

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 1988

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.09 — 927 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.54 — 13 ratings — published 1941

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.13 — 38 ratings — published 1974

by (shelved 2 times as optics)
avg rating 4.31 — 29 ratings — published 1986

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 3.85 — 78 ratings — published 1944

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 4.36 — 33 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 4.17 — 52 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 3.60 — 10 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 4.43 — 54 ratings — published 1953

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 3.84 — 105 ratings — published 1655

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 3.79 — 48 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 4.36 — 677 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 4.33 — 24 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 4.07 — 42 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 3.17 — 24 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2009

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 4.48 — 724 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as optics)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2013

“54. Long before either wave or particle, some (Pythagoras, Euclid, Hipparchus) thought that our eyes emitted some kind of substance that illuminated, or "felt," what we saw. (Aristotle pointed out that this hypothesis runs into trouble at night, as objects become invisible despite the eyes' purported power.) Others, like Epicurus, proposed the inverse--that objects themselves project a kind of ray that reaches out toward the eye, as if they were looking at us (and surely some of them are). Plato split the difference, and postulated that a "visual fire" burns between our eyes and that which they behold. This still seems fair enough.”
― Bluets
― Bluets

“He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.”
― The March Of Folly: From Troy To Vietnam
― The March Of Folly: From Troy To Vietnam