[PDF] A history of light and colour measurement: science in the shadows Sean F. Johnston

Think that brightness of light is no big deal? Think again. 🙂

With chapter titles like Chapter 2’s “Light as a Law-Abiding Quanitity” or Chapter 3’s “Seeing Things”, this book has as much heart as it does wit.

Intelligently written, it provides an important counter-weight to all flights of fancy (successes–Plank’s Black Body Radiation–and failures–N Rays! lol) as well as their public perception.