Books by Max Born

Principles of Optics is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century, and among the most influential books in optics ever published. To celebrate its 60th anniversary, the seventh expanded edition has been reprinted with a special foreword by Sir Peter Knight.

Originally published in 1943, this book examines the mutual relationship between theory and experiment in the development of physics.

THE idea of collecting these essays occurred to me when, in the leisure of retire ment, I scanned some of my own books and found that two of the more widely read show a startling change of attitude to some of the fundamental concepts of science.

Kommentiert und erweitert von Jurgen Ehlers und Markus Poessel. Die funfte Auflage entstand unter Mitarbeit von Walter Biem