A luz e a matéria

Acabou de ser publicado ou está prestes a ser publicado (as informações de que disponho são contraditórias) o seguinte livro:

Steven Beeson; James W. Mayer, Patterns of Light. Chasing the Spectrum from Aristotle to LEDs, New York, Springer, 2008.

Índice:

• The Path of Light
• The Straight and Narrow
• The Fastest Thing Around
• Standing in the Shadows
• The Reversible Path of Light
• The World through a Hole
• A Room with a View
• The Reflection of Light
• Reflections on the Past
• All Things Equal
• From the Looking Glass
• The Curved Mirror
• Shaving and a Spoon
• The Rough Edges
• Daguerreotypes: Light Captured
• A Race to Capture Light
• Tripping the Light Fantastic
• It’s all in the Reflection
• The Refraction of Light
• From Galaxy to Fish
• Altering the Speed of Light
• The Light Brigade
• The Properties of Waves
• On the Beach
• The Law of Refraction
• The Refractive Index
• Total Internal Reflection
• Diffraction: Newton’s Mistake
• Lenses: From Water Drops to Telescopes
• Viewing the Unknown
• The Focal Length
• Of Objects, Images, and Burning Glasses
• Burning Glasses
• Measuring Magnification
• The Compound Microscope
• A New Microscope
• Inside the SEM
• Optical versus Electron Microscopy
• Seeing the Distant
• Imperfect Light
• The Most Advanced Camera
• Still an Imperfect Camera
• Sources of Light and Color
• Crossroads
• Waves, Rebounding
• Waves, Unfolding
• Photons, Reflecting
• The Color of Objects
• Sources of Light
• Replacing Edison
• Revolution in White Light Sources
• Tricking Photons with Lasers
• Structural Color
• The Eye and Color Sensation
• Diffraction and Interference
• Light as a Wave
• Wave Interference
• Young’s Interference
• Color from Interference
• Soap Bubbles
• Oil Slicks and Lens Coatings
• Newton’s Rings
• Birds of a Feather
• Diffraction
• Diffraction Gratings
• Rainbows
• Through the Looking Glass
• The Pot of Gold
• A Rainbow by Hand
• The Antisolar Point
• Rainbows in 3D
• The Double Rainbow
• The Light inside a Rainbow
• Rainbows Far Afield
• Sea, Sky, and Cloud
• Beam of Light
• The Color of Sky
• The Color of Sea
• The Color of Smoke
• White Clouds and Smoke
• Salt with your Beer?
• The Remains of the Day
• The Shadow in the East
• Beyond the Horizon
• An Oasis in the Sahara (or the Arctic)
• Sundogs and Halos
• Polarized Light and Sunglasses
• Sunglasses
• Polarized Light
• Polarization by Reflection
• Polarization by Scattering
• Polarization by Absorption
• Calcite and Double Refraction
• Polarization and the Eye
• Photons, Electrons, and the Atom
• Light is Created and Destroyed
• Packets of Energy
• The Electron
• The Bohr Model of the Atom
• Light and Electrons
• Electrons and the Spectrum
• X-ray Energies
• Characteristic X-rays
• X-rays, Ultraviolet Light, and Infrared
• Beyond the Visible
• Discoveries beyond the Visible
• Infrared (IR) Radiation
• Ultraviolet (UV) Radiation
• X-radiation (X-rays)
• Light Absorption
• X-ray Absorption
• Fluorescence with Ultraviolet Light
• Infrared Light
• Infrared Space Exploration
• X-ray Emission: Earth, Moon, and Mars
• The Moon
• X-ray Emission
• X-ray Fluorescence (XRF)
• Electron Microprobe and Electron Dispersive Spectrometry (EDS)
• Particle-Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE)