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Excerpt from Outlines of Applied Optics These outlines of applied optics deal with optical instruments and optical measurements from the standpoint of sensibility and precision. The first three chapters treat of instruments for forming images; the remaining chapters, special instruments for analyzing light and determining the properties of materials. The keynote throughout is the question of securing the best possible results in optical work. It might be well classed as optical engineering or technical optics, but applied optics is a broader term. Applied optics is practically untaught in any university. By the student of pure optics, optical instruments are regarded as mere tools to be simplified and ignored rather than, studied. The physical properties of the eye and photographic plate, essential parts of every optical instrument, are largely unknown and disregarded. Color and colorimetry rest practically where Maxwell's great contributions left them. Light itself is not even precisely defined. No class of engineering offers higher prizes than the different branches of optical engineering-lens design, illuminating engineering, colorimetry, photography, radiometry, pyrometry, etc. No richer field awaits the investigator versed in pure optics than those of applied optics, and a student can find no more alluring, promising, or brain racking problems than are to be found in these neglected fields. There are ample reasons why applied optics should be taught i 2 as such in at least a few of our leading universities, and it is hoped that this work may add strength and unity to such tendencies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.