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Photonics Variety Spices Up the Sciences

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JAMES SCHLETT, EDITOR, [email protected]

The British science historian Jacob Bronowski once pointed out that where Leonardo da Vinci was fascinated with nature’s “variety, its infinite adaptability, the fitness and the individuality of all its parts,” Isaac Newton, in contrast, found great pleasure in astronomy because of “its unity, its singleness, its model of a nature in which the diversified parts were mere disguises for the same blank atoms.” However, despite his affinity for unity, Newton would doubtlessly be impressed with the variety of photonics technologies for which his theories on light laid...Read full article

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    Published: May 2016
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    The scientific observation of celestial radiation that has reached the vicinity of Earth, and the interpretation of these observations to determine the characteristics of the extraterrestrial bodies and phenomena that have emitted the radiation.
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