Lenses and Waves Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical Science of Optics in the Seventeenth Century /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Σειρά: Archimedes, 9
• Θέματα: Science.; Philosophy.; Mathematics.; History.; Physics.; Science, general.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Philosophy of Technology.

In 1690, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) published Traité de la Lumière, containing his renowned wave theory of light. It is considered a landmark in seventeenth-century science, for the way Huygens mathematized the corpuscular nature of light and his probabilistic conception of natural knowledge. Th...