#optics

Stories tagged “optics” in the Weird Science History archive — 4 stories connected by this topic.

• The Physicist Who Cleaned His 40-Foot Spectrograph by Sending the Family Cat Through It
• The Skyscraper That Melted a Jaguar — and Fried an Egg on the Pavement
• The Flake of Chipped Paint That Made a $1.5 Billion Telescope Nearsighted
• The Needle Isaac Newton Slid Behind His Own Eyeball to Find Out Where Color Comes From

Related topics: #17th century #20 fenchurch street #architecture #cats #color #concave mirror #COSTAR #diffraction-gratings