Dioptrique

The Dioptrique begins with a discussion of the nature of light, and the phenomena of refraction, presented in synthetic fash - ion.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

The Discourse, as we commonly encounter it, was only a preface, an introduction, to those illustrations of the “method” which were published in the original book, and which have ever since been generally omitted from modern editions: the Dioptrique, the

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

Dioptrique the law of refraction, which Willebrord

OPTICS AND VISION VASCO RONCHI 1968

On this point René Descartes was particularly explicit in his Dioptrique of 1638; even while proposing various models to explain light phenomena, he insisted above all on the corpuscular model, regarding lumen as a swarm of spherical corpuscles endowed with two motions: a very rapid translatory motion and

OPTICS AND VISION VASCO RONCHI 1968

A special inquiry would be necessary to ascertain whether the letters, which were written in 1641, are previous or posterior in date to the present treatise, but I have some reasons for supposing that the latter was written immediately after the first appearance of Descartes 'Dioptrique in 1637.

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