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Table of Contents; Introduction; I. History; 1.) Ancient Optics - Magnification Without Lenses; 2.) The Solar Weapon of Archimedes; 3.) Claudius Ptolemy’s Law of Refraction; 4.) Antonio de Ulloa’s Mystery; 5.) The Miracle of St. Gascoigne; 6.) Rays of the Sun; 7.) Roy G. Biv; 8.) George Christoph Lichtenberg; 9.) Hopkinson’s Silk Handkerchief; 10.) First Light - Thomas Melville and the Beginnings of Spectroscopy; 11.) Mediocrity and Illumination; 12.) Even If You Can’t Draw a Straight Line; 13.) A Sea Change; 14.) Thomas Pearsall and the Ultraviolet; 15.) If at First You Don’t Succeed; 16.) More than a Burner; 17.) Apply Light Pressure; 18.) Sound Movies, the World’s Fair, and Stellar Spectroscopy; 19.) Deja vu; 20.) The Magic Lantern of Omar Khayyam; II. Weird Science; 21.) The Yellow Sun Paradox; 22.) Once in a Blue Moon; 23.) Chromatic Dispersions; 24.) The Eye in the Spiral; 25.) Retroreflectors; 26.) Yes, I was Right! It is Obvious!; 27.) Edible Lasers; 28.) Pyrotechnic Lasers; 29.) Defunct Lasers; 30.) The Phantom Laser; 31.) The Case of the Oily Mirrors; A Locked Room mystery; 32.) Pinhole Glasses; 33.) Undulations; III. Pop Culture; 34.) This is Your Cat on Lasers; 35.) Dord; 36.) Zap!; 37.) Mystic Cameras; 38.) Playing With Light; 39.) I Must Find That Tractor Beam; 40.) The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Starbow; 41.) Diamonds in the Dark; 42.) A Popular History of the Laser; 43.) Pop Culture Errors in Optics; 44.) Pop Spectrum; 45.) The Telephote; Afterword

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