CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1. INTRODUCTION: MAKING LIGHT COUNT; 2. LIGHT AS A LAW-ABIDING QUANTITY; 3. SEEING THINGS; 4. CAREERS IN THE SHADOWS; 5. LABORATORIES AND LEGISLATION; 6. TECHNOLOGY IN TRANSITION; 7. DISPUTING LIGHT AND COLOUR; 8. MARKETING PHOTOMETRY; 9. MILITARIZING RADIOMETRY; 10. AN 'UNDISCIPLINED SCIENCE'; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index
Summary
Judging the brightness and colour of light has long been contentious. This is a history of the hidden workings of physical science - a technical endeavour embedded in a social context. It argues that this "undisciplined" subject may be typical not only of 20th-century science, but of its future
