La dioptrique (in English Dioptrique, Optics, or Dioptrics) is a short treatise by René Descartes. It was published in 1637 included in one of the Essays...
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René Descartes (/deɪˈkɑːrt/ day-KART or UK: /ˈdeɪkɑːrt/ DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650): 58 was a French philosopher...
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Discourse, Descartes presents his method for obtaining clarity on any subject. La Géométrie and two other appendices, also by Descartes, La Dioptrique (Optics)...
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Discourse on the Method (redirect from Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences)
de la méthode Descartes, René (1637). Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences, plus la dioptrique, les...
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leaving for Sweden (where he died 4 months later). His Les Météores, La Dioptrique and La Géométrie were published in the first period and his letters to Elisabeth...
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Snell's law (redirect from Descartes law)
lifetime. René Descartes independently derived the law using heuristic momentum conservation arguments in terms of sines in his 1637 essay Dioptrique, and used...
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pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les scienses, plus la dioptrique, les météores et la géométrie qui sont des essais de cette method...
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Treatise on Light (redirect from Traité de la Lumière)
it possible to explain the laws of geometrical optics shown in Descartes's Dioptrique, which Huygens aimed to replace. Unlike Newton's corpuscular theory...
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a soul. (Friedman 79) In 1694, Nicolaas Hartsoeker, in his Essai de Dioptrique concerning things large and small that could be seen with optical lenses...
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Christiaan Huygens (section Traité de la Lumière)
pures 1652–1656 (1910). Tome XIII, Fasc. I: Dioptrique 1653, 1666 (1916). Tome XIII, Fasc. II: Dioptrique 1685–1692 (1916). Tome XIV: Calcul des probabilités...
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Complètes, vol. 13 (ed. D.J. Korteweg, 1916), Quatrième Complément à la Dioptrique, at p. 834, "Parte 2da ..." (in Latin, with annotations in French)....
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Camera obscura (category CS1 Latin-language sources (la))
called a scioptric ball. In his 1637 book Dioptrique French philosopher, mathematician and scientist René Descartes suggested placing an eye of a recently...
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1625 (Galileo had called it the occhiolino 'little eye'). René Descartes (Dioptrique, 1637) describes microscopes wherein a concave mirror, with its...
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doi:10.1086/350790, PMID 4948770, S2CID 40895875 Rashed, R., Géométrie et dioptrique au Xe siècle: Ibn Sahl, al-Quhi et Ibn al-Haytham. Paris: Les Belles Lettres...
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ray could only be reflected. René Descartes rediscovered the law of refraction and published it in his Dioptrique of 1637. In the same work he mentioned...
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