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A short, bright flash: Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse
A short, bright flash: Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse
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Levitt, Theresa
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
[2013]
Language
English
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From the Book - First edition.
Dark and deadly shores
Dreams of glory
The flash of brilliance
The dream of total refraction
Race to perfection
The American exception
Everything recklessly broken
The golden age.
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Fresnel, Augustin Jean
Fresnel, Augustin Jean, 1788-1827
Fresnel lenses
Fresnel lenses -- History
History
Lighthouses
Lighthouses -- History
Physicists
Physicists -- France -- Biography
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ISBN
9780393068795
039306879
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