Lenses and Waves Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical Science of Optics in the Seventeenth Century /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2005.
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| Series: | Archimedes,
9 |
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
