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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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Springer
2004
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| Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/2269106 |