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 (redirect from Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light)
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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Physics (redirect from List of further reading on physics)
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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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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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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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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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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Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Optics Christiaan Huygens Treatise on Light John Locke A Letter Concerning Toleration Concerning Civil Government...
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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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Pascal – The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises Christiaan Huygens – Treatise on Light Benedict de Spinoza – Ethics John Locke – Letter Concerning...
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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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René Descartes (section On animals)
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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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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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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Luminiferous aether (redirect from Ether theory of light)
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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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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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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Theory of Colours (category No local image but image on Wikidata)
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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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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consisted of endless circular vortices at all scales. However his Treatise on Light remained unfinished. Hermann Helmholtz realized in the mid-19th century...
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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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be clearly observable in the dust which fills the air." – Alhazen, Treatise on Light (رسالة في الضوء), translated into English from German by M. Schwarz...
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Thomas Young (scientist) (section Wave theory of light)
important was to establish the wave theory of light set out by Christiaan Huygens in his Treatise on Light (1690). To do so, he had to overcome the century-old...
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(1962-12-31). Polarized Light. doi:10.4159/harvard.9780674424135. ISBN 9780674424111. Huygens, Christiaan (1913-04-18). "Treatise on Light". Science. 37 (955):...
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