From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics
A. Mark Smith
The recently revived push toward a global approach to the history of science is reflected in the five essays by Marwa Elshakry, Helen Tilley, Shruti Kapila, Neil Safier, and Sujit Sivasundaram in the “Focus” section of Isis 101 (2010): 95–158.