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Treatise on Light (French: Traité de la Lumière) is a 1690 book written by the Dutch polymath Christiaan Huygens on his wave theory of light. Huygens' starting point was Descartes' theory, as presented in the Dioptrique, which Huygens aimed to supplant. Huygens' theory is also seen as the historical rival of Newton's theory, which was presented in the Opticks. C. Huygens, Traité de la Lumière, Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, 1690; archive. org/details/bub gb kVxsaYdZaaoC.

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Treatise on Light In which are explained the causes of that which occurs in reflexion, & in refraction and particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland crystal. translated by Silvanus P. Thompson. First published in 1912

Treatise on Light In which are explained the causes of that which occurs in reflexion, & in refraction and particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland crystal. First published in 1912. Last updated Mon Feb 16 20:25:55 2015. To the best of our knowledge, the text of this work is in the Public Domain in Australia.

Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before Newton's Opticks. The book explains how light travels (. that it has a certain velocity), and what happens when it hits a surface (refraction and reflection). A large portion of the book is devoted to the double refraction occurring in Iceland chrystal, and all drawn conclusions are proved geometrically. Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 1695) was a prominent physicist and astronomer. His main discoveries are the centrifugal force, collision laws for bodies and.

Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before . His main discoveries are the centrifugal force, collision laws for bodies and the argument that light consists of waves. He was a contemporary of Galilei and Descartes, and a member of the French Royal Society since 1663.

8 quotes from Christiaan Huygens: 'The world is my country, science is my religion. 'I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably. and 'How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them.

eBook "Treatise on Light" by Christiaan Huygens I shall therefore essay in this book, to give, in accordance with the principles accepted in the Philosophy of the present day, some clearer and more.

eBook "Treatise on Light" by Christiaan Huygens. Such are that the rays of light are propagated in straight lines; that the angles of reflexion and of incidence are equal; and that in refraction the ray is bent according to the law of sines, now so well known, and which is no less certain than the preceding laws. I shall therefore essay in this book, to give, in accordance with the principles accepted in the Philosophy of the present day, some clearer and more probable reasons, firstly of these properties of light propagated rectilinearly; secondly of light which is reflected on meeting other bodies.