Certainly Bacon’s judgment that optics is the gateway to other sciences is particularly true of astronomy, since virtually all astronomical information arrives in the form of light. We devote the next two chapters to how astronomers utilize the sweetness and beauty of optical science. This chapter introduces the fundamentals.
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