Patterns of Light : Chasing the Spectrum from Aristotle to LEDs This book begins by addressing properties of light as seen in the everyday world: events such as refraction in a pool lenses in the form of glasses the colors of objects atmospheric events etc. Latter chapters would explain these events at the atomic and subatomic level and address the use of electron and optical microscopy in observing the worlds unseen by the unaided eye. The book is an elegant and aesthetically pleasing volume that is intended for science students and will be enjoyed by those with a background in optics. Exercises and activities will be found in an appendix but the primary volume can stand alone if the reader so desires.