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    Treatise on Light: In Which Are Explained the Causes of That Which Occurs in Reflection & Refraction (French: Traité de la Lumière: Où sont expliquées...
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    A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject and its...
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    a mathematical wave theory of light in 1678 and published it in his Treatise on Light in 1690. He proposed that light was emitted in all directions as...
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    Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a collection of three books by Isaac Newton that was published...
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    A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism is a two-volume treatise on electromagnetism written by James Clerk Maxwell in 1873. Maxwell was revising the...
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    presented the alternative to the ancient Greek idea about vision. In his Treatise on Light as well as in his Kitāb al-Manāẓir, he presented a study of the phenomenon...
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    on 2 November 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2021. The Partisan in War, a treatise on light infantry tactics written by Colonel Andreas Emmerich in 1789. Beattie...
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    Two Treatises of Government (full title: Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His...
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    Ibn al-Haytham (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    (الحركة المتعرجة) Treatise on Light (رسالة في الضوء) Treatise on Place (رسالة في المكان) Treatise on the Influence of Melodies on the Souls of Animals...
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    Epicurus' Scientific Method. Cornell University Press Alhacen (c.1035) Treatise on Light (رسالة في الضوء) as cited in Shmuel Sambursky, ed. (1975) Physical...
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    Lumière (Treatise on light), and contains the first fully mathematized, mechanistic explanation of an unobservable physical phenomenon (i.e., light propagation)...
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  • Licht" (Treatise on Light — رسالة في الضوء), J. Baarmann (ed. 1882) Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft Vol 36 as referenced on p.136...
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  • library of science and medicine. ISBN 978-87-7709-010-3. C. Huygens, Treatise on Light (Leiden: Van der Aa, 1690), translated by Silvanus P. Thompson, London:...
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    Leyden by Van der Aa, 1690), translated by Silvanus P. Thompson as Treatise on Light (London: Macmillan, 1912; Project Gutenberg edition, 2005), p.19....
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    Huygens's Treatise on Light (1690) hypothesized that light is a wave propagating through an aether. He and Isaac Newton could only envision light waves as...
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    A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects (1739–40) is a book by Scottish philosopher...
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    Leyden by Van der Aa, 1690), translated by Silvanus P. Thompson as Treatise on Light (London: Macmillan, 1912; Project Gutenberg edition, 2005), p.19....
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    1633. The World, or Treatise on Light Archived 21 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine, tr. by Michael S. Mahoney. 1633. Treatise of Man, tr. by T. S. Hall...
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    Brachistochrone curve (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    problems in optics that "the late Mr. Huygens" had raised in his treatise on light. In the same letter he criticised Newton for concealing his method...
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  • sky survey. Christiaan Huygens publishes his Traité de la Lumière/Treatise on Light, which states his principle of wavefront sources. Robert Hooke publishes...
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    War. The Partisan in War (1789), a treatise on light infantry tactics written by Colonel Andreas Emmerich, is based on his experiences in the Seven Years'...
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  • Pascal – The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises Christiaan Huygens – Treatise on Light Benedict de Spinoza – Ethics John Locke – Letter Concerning...
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    Total internal reflection (category Light)
    although he could easily have done so. Christiaan Huygens, in his Treatise on Light (1690), paid much attention to the threshold at which the incident...
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  • speed of light traveling from the moons of Jupiter. 1678 – Christiaan Huygens mathematical wave theory of light, published in his Treatise on Light 1687 –...
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    Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Optics Christiaan Huygens Treatise on Light John Locke A Letter Concerning Toleration Concerning Civil Government...
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    Yale University Press 1997, 170 "The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought", American Political Science...
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    defined darkness as an absence of light. Young and Fresnel showed that Huygens' wave theory (in his Treatise on Light) could explain that colour is the...
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    1900. In 1912, Thompson published the first English translation of Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens. His scientific library of historical and working...
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    Ole Rømer (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    Christiaan (8 January 1690) Treatise on Light. Translated into English by Silvanus P. Thompson, Project Gutenberg etext, p. 11. Retrieved on 29 April 2007. Litteraturens...
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    founding figure of the High Renaissance, and exhibited enormous influence on subsequent artists. Only around eight major works—The Adoration of the Magi...
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