La Lumière | Bernard Maitte

Excellent book on evolution of concepts about light throughout history. All back and forth movements about its corpuscular or wave nature are approached within the cultural context of each moment and the philosophical theological preferences of each scientist. At the end it shows how much science really can not have as purpose an investigation into the nature of things and should be content to describe them through mathematical models only.

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