MacLean, Don JH J HBiblio.com
Luneberg, R K (Luneburg)MareMagnum
Mathematical Theory of Optics
1944401pp + add. G/none First edition. Strong blue buckram hardback with gilt lettering on spine, cover slightly worn and rubbed with traces of a couple of stickers, ex-lib label and “withdrawn” stamp on pastedown, small stamp and traces of label on rear pastedown, no other stamps noted inside, tear of about 6cm on the lower margin of pp.14-18 of the Supplement II (no loss), paper lightly age-yellowed, overall a good copy. Content and pagination: Main body xvii+401pp Appendix I Vector analysis: definitions and theorems 7pp Appendix II Tracing of light rays in a system of plane reflecting or refracting surfaces 6pp Suppl. Note I Electron Optics (N Chako and A A Blank) iii+38pp Suppl. Note II Optical Qualities of Glass (M Herzberger) 22pp Suppl. Note III Mathematical and Geometrical Optics (M Herzberger) 8pp Suppl. Note IV Simmetry and Asymmetry in Optical Images (M Herzberger) 9pp Errata 6pp. Classic and important treatise by the German/American physicist Rudolf Karl Lüneburg, based on the course given in the Summer 1944 at the Brown University Advanced Instruction and Research in Mechanics. Mimeographed pages, including two appendixes plus the supplementary notes mainly by Max Herzberger (Kodak Research Laboratories). The lens named after the author that has found several applications in microwave and millimeter-wave technology is for the first time described here. Luneburg published very little of his researches and this work had a restricted circulation at that time; it was published twenty years later by the University of California Press and reprinted more recently, recognised as one of the most important work in mathematical optics of the XX century.
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