Myles W. Jackson. Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics. xii + 284 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2000. $34.95 [Book Review]

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