An edition of Optik (1933)

Optik

ein Lehrbuch der elektromagnetischen Lichttheorie

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An edition of Optik (1933)

Optik

ein Lehrbuch der elektromagnetischen Lichttheorie

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This is Max Born's own description of the book in a letter which he wrote to the Manchester Guardian in 1951, when the US government was licensing the book to American publishers while paying no royalties to the author:

In 1932 1 published a voluminous textbook on optics, the fruit or many years of strenuous labour, with the German arm of J. Springer. Six months later I had to leave Germany as a victim of Hitler's persecution and found a refuge and a position in this country. From that moment I received no royalties from the book which, as a Jewish product. was suppressed in Germany. During the war the book, like many others from German Publishing firms, was confiscated by the United States Government: the Custodian of Alien Property sold the rights for publication to the firm Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, who reprinted it by a photo-technical process and sold it at an exorbitant price. As it is the only modern work of its kind. I had to purchase a copy for my own department in Edinburgh. and it is now found in many physical libraries.

These are the Chapter headings
1. Electromagnetic light theory for transparent isotropic body without color dispersion
2. Geometrical Optics
3. Interference
4. Diffraction
5. Crystal Optics
6. Metal Optics
7. Molecular Optics
8. Emission, Absorption, Dispersion

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Publisher
Edwards Brothers
Language
German
Pages
591

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Previews available in: German

Book Details


Published in

Ann Arbor, MI

Edition Notes

Reprint of the 1933 ed. published by J. Springer, Berlin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 591 p. :
Number of pages
591

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16375096M
Internet Archive
optikeinlehrbuch00born

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