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Hartmann Römer
Theoretical Optics
An Introduction
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Contents
Preface to the German edition IX
Preface to the English edition XIII
1 A short survey of the history of optics 1
2 The electrodynamics of continuous media 15
Maxwell’sequations.............................. 15