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Newton shows the light: a commentary on Newton (1672) ‘A letter … containing his new theory about light and colours…’
Isaac Newton's reputation was initially established by his 1672 paper on the refraction of light through a prism; this is now seen as a ground-breaking account and the foundation of modern optics. In it, he claimed to refute Cartesian ideas of light modification by definitively demonstrating th...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society Publishing
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4360081/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25750143 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0213 |