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1. Experimental optics: a manual for the laboratory, by G. F. C. Searle

Author

R. S. Shorter

Subjects
GEORGE (programming language), Reprint, Philosophy, General Physics and Astronomy, Art history
Abstract

Why would any publishers in their right mind reprint a set of demonstration notes written nearly a century ago for a course that ended some 20 years later? George Searle’s book was largely written ...

Published
2016
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3. Principles of adaptive optics, 4th edition, by Robert K. Tyson

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R. S. Shorter

Subjects
Poetry, Star (game theory), media_common.quotation_subject, General Physics and Astronomy, Art history, 02 engineering and technology, Art, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, Engineering physics, Wonder, 010309 optics, 0103 physical sciences, 0210 nano-technology, Adaptive optics, media_common
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‘Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are’. Jane Taylor’s poem in Rhymes for the Nursery reminds us of the problems of moving information through a turbulent medium that exist in ma...

Published
2017
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5. TESLA: Inventor of the Electrical Age, by W. Bernard Carlson

Author

R. S. Shorter

Subjects
Scope (project management), Philosophy, General Physics and Astronomy, Art history, Biography
Abstract

For some, tesla is merely the SI unit of magnetic flux density but in 1880s New York Tesla was a household name whose life was akin to that of a modern film star and whose articles were read by sci...

Published
2013
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7. Cremona Violins: A Physicist's Quest for Secrets of Stradivari, by Kameshwar C. Wali

Author

R. S. Shorter

Subjects
Physics, Violin, Theoretical physics, General interest, Scope (project management), General Physics and Astronomy, Art history, Physicist, Audience measurement
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Cremona Violins: A Physicist's Quest for Secrets of Stradivari, by Kameshwar C. Wali, Singapore, World Scientific, 2009, 176 pp., £18.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-9-812-79110-8. Scope: general interest...

Published
2011
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8. An Artist Looks at Gordonia

Author

Edward S. Shorter

Subjects
Multidisciplinary, food.ingredient, food, media_common.quotation_subject, Art history, Art, Gordonia, media_common
Published
1929
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