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Descartes's Theory of Light and Refraction: A Discourse on Method, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 77, Part 3)

Descartes's Theory of Light and Refraction: A Discourse on Method, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 77, Part 3)

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Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Book 720

General Mathematics

ISBN10: 0871697734
ISBN13: 9780871697738
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: Jan 1 1987
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.31 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Contents: (1) Historical Overview; & Descartes's Perspectivist Sources; (2) Analysis of Refraction: Cartesian Light-Theory; & A Critical Evaluation; (3) The Foundations of Perspectivist Optics: Perspectivist Light-Theory; Quantization of Light; & Comparison with Descartes's Theory of Light; (4) The Perspectivist Analysis of Refraction: Physical Model; Physical Explanation & The Final Cause; (5) Perspectivist Grounds of the Cartesian Proof: Mathematical Implications; From Cosines to Sines; & Descartes Revisited; (6) Cartesian Light-Theory as a Culmination; Toward a Kinetic Theory of Light; & Epistemological Consequences. App.: The Sine-Law Before Descartes; The Fermat-Descartes Controversy; & Kepler, Descartes & the Anaclastic. Illustrations.

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