It takes the average reader 4 hours and 59 minutes to read Lenses and Waves by Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 1690, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) published Traité de la Lumière, containing his renowned wave theory of light. It is considered a landmark in seventeenth-century science, for the way Huygens mathematized the corpuscular nature of light and his probabilistic conception of natural knowledge. This book discusses the development of Huygens' wave theory, reconstructing the winding road that eventually led to Traité de la Lumière. For the first time, the full range of manuscript sources is taken into account. In addition, the development of Huygens' thinking on the nature of light is put in...
Lenses and Waves by Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis is 289 pages long, and a total of 74,851 words.
This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read Lenses and Waves aloud.
Lenses and Waves is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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