Re: optics of metals


"Allan Adler" <ara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

BTW where did you find your copy of Born?

Germany. You might be able to order it from www.amazon.de.
I bought mine about 25 years ago. At the time, and maybe still,
they had a very good book distribution system. I walked into a
bookstore in a small town and asked about the book and they told
me they would have it the next day.

I put off reading it for decades because I thought I didn't have time
to get involved in its details. So, recently, I conned myself into reading
it by telling myself it was just to practice my German. I'm not checking
all details but I am nevertheless following it without much effort. One
advantage of reading it in German, apart from being able to get Born's
point of view by itself (he is a very good writer), is that I cannot avoid
reading it slowly; that is something I often don't have the patience
to do in English.

Knowing German is a formidable advantage if one wants to study "early
physics", mostly 19th century and early 20th.

What Google Books shows about August Kundt is mostly in German, of
course.

I forgot to mention that if you want to download stuff from Google Books
in a library you need at the minimum a CD.

These downloads are typically 20 MB sometimes more, sometimes less.

I assume that your computer can read CDs. :-)


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