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This chapter gives a historical prospective of the field of optics in general. It is amazing that, even though light has always been a source of immense curiosity for ancient peoples, most principles of modern optics had to wait until the late eighteenth century to be conceived, and it was only during the mid-nineteenth century with Maxwell’s equations that modern optics was fully brought to birth. The century following that event has been an exciting time of learning and a tremendous growth which we have been witnessing today.
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Iizuka, K. (2019). History of Optics. In: Engineering Optics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69251-7_1
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