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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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2004, 2004
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2004 |
| Series: | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- From the contents: 1. Introduction – 'The perfect Cartesian'
- 2. 1653 – 'Tractatus'
- 3. 1655-1672 – 'De Aberratione'
- 4. The 'Project' of 1672
- 5. 1677-1679 – Waves of Light
- 6. 1690 – Traité de la Lumière
- 7. Conclusion: Lenses & Waves
- List of figures
- Bibliography
- Index