Excerpta et notanda in Kepleri ... ad vitellionem, c1693
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [38.1]
Scope and Contents
A discussion, probably inspired by Sir Isaac Newton, of whether it was Willebrord Snell or Voss who discovered a law of refraction first, from which Rene Descartes arguably derived his version at last.
Dates
- c1693
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Duncan Fisher 20 June 2001
- Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650 (French mathematician)
- Duillier, Fatio de, 1664-1753 (Swiss mathematician)
- Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford)
- Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 (mathematician and astronomer)
- Optics
- Professional Links
- Refraction
- Snell, Willebrord, 1591-1626 (called Snellius)
- Voss, 1618-1689 (Dutch mathematician)
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