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  1. Invisibility
    the history and science of how not to be seen
    Author: Gbur, Greg
    Published: [2023]; ©2023
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven ; London

    "Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Technisch-naturwissenschaftliche Zweigbibliothek
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    Deutsches Museum, Bibliothek
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    Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte

     

    "Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi origins in the nineteenth-century writings of authors such as H. G. Wells and Fitz James O'Brien to modern stealth technology, invisibility cloaks, and metamaterials. He explores the history of invisibility and its science and technology connections, including the discovery of the electromagnetic spectrum, the development of the atomic model, and quantum theory. He shows how invisibility has moved from fiction to reality, and he questions the hidden paths that lie ahead for researchers"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780300250428
    Subjects: Technologie; Unsichtbarkeit; Optik; Forschung
    Other subjects: Invisibility; SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light; SCIENCE / History; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Optics; Invisibility; Nonfiction
    Scope: viii, 280 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 253-268. - Index

  2. Invisibility
    the history and science of how not to be seen
    Author: Gbur, Greg
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven

    Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Bibliothek
    Frei122-F10/448
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    Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) / Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek
    T 23 B 2691
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    UBN/UB 2420 G291
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    63 A 4724
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780300250428
    Other identifier:
    9780300250428
    RVK Categories: UB 2420
    Subjects: Invisibility
    Scope: viii, 280 Seiten, Illustrationen, Diagramme, 22 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 253-268