Ancient Optics : Magnification Without Lenses
The Solar Weapon of Archimedes
Claudius Ptolemy's Law of Refraction
Antonio de Ulloa's Mystery
The Miracle of St. Gascoigne
George Christoph Lichtenberg
Hopkinson's Silk Handkerchief
First Light : Thomas Melville and the Beginnings of Spectroscopy
Mediocrity and Illumination
Even If You Can't Draw a Straight Line
Thomas Pearsall and the Ultraviolet
If at First You Don't Succeed
Sound Movies, the World's Fair, and Stellar Spectroscopy
The Magic Lantern of Omar Khayyam
Yes, I Was Right! It Is Obvious!
The Case of the Oily Mirrors; A Locked Room Mystery
This is Your Cat on Lasers
I Must Find That Tractor Beam
The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Starbow
A Popular History of the Laser
Pop Culture Errors in Optics
