Written independently and published in the same year, 1760, Bouguer’s Traité d’optique and Lambert’s Photométria are the foundations of photometry. We discuss their thoughts and pioneering contributio...

Invisibility was long thought to be exclusively the domain of science fiction and fantasy authors, but in recent years it has been the subject of extensive theoretical and experimental research. In th...

While Pancharatnam discovered the geometric phase in 1956, his work was not widely recognized until its endorsement by Berry in 1987, after which it received wide appreciation. However, because Pancha...

Stacked glass plates have discreetly accompanied the understanding of light since the origins of modern optics. They were studied by Bouguer, Lambert, Brewster, Arago, Stokes, Rayleigh, and many other...