Sentence examples for optical theory from inspiring English sources

This relationship is demonstrated without complicated optical theory to make the results usable to experimentalists from domains other than optics.

In optical theory, the Brocken is actually a combination shadow and diffraction effect: a shadow plus an image.

Realizing that improvements in optical instruments depended on advances in optical theory, in 1866 he engaged as a research worker Ernst Abbe, a physics and mathematics lecturer (later professor) at the University of Jena, who soon became Zeiss's partner.

Fourth, the experiments in Bacon, especially in the Perspectiva served "theoretically significant functions" by supplying observational data that required explanation in terms of a given optical theory.

The reflection and transmission spectra of the photonic crystals were calculated by transfer matrix method of thin-film optical theory.

However, here it can be said that that optical theory was able to accommodate a range of optical phenomena in a coherent way that rendered it superior to any rival.

Although Bartholin himself was unable to explain double refraction, it was recognized as a serious contradiction to Isaac Newton's optical theories.

These derived from the optical theories of Ogden N Rood, an American physicist who held that light was produced by the oscillation of adjoining colours.

The Industrial Age 1750-1900, and and Science, Technology and Science," through July 29, follows the course from Newton's groundbreaking optical theories to the Impressionists' depictions of natural light to the advent of industrial lighting.

Seurat's optical theories may have given Divisionism its brushwork, but it is the realism of Courbet – badly distorted by the Macchiaioli painters of the 1850s – which leads to the mawkishness of Segantini's Spring in the Alps.

A leading astronomer, he also argued presciently that fossils recorded ancient inundations; and while scholars agree that Newton's optical theories drew on Hooke's work, even Newton acknowledged Hooke's suggestion of the ratios underlying his calculations of planetary orbits.