Light waves and their uses
By: by A.A. Michelson
Series: University of Chicago. Decennial Publications. 2nd Ser -- 3; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Decennial publications (University of Chicago) -- 3.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1903
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Interference (Light); Optical instruments; Standards of length; Magnetooptics; Ether (Space)
Notes: "This series of eight lectures ... was delivered in the spring of 1899 at the Lowell Institute."--Pref.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Wave motion and interference; title: Comparison of the efficiency of the microscope, telescope, and interferometer; title: Application of interference methods to measurements of distances and angles; title: Application of interference methods to spectroscopy; title: Light waves as standards of length; title: Analysis of the action of magnetism on light waves by the interferometer and the echelon; title: Application of interference methods to astronomy; title: The ether.