Treatise on Light
by Christiaan Huygens
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About this eBook
- Author
- Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695
- Title
- 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
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Clare Boothby, Stephen Schulze, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QC: Science: Physics
- Subject
- Refraction, Double
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 14725
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14725
- Release Date
- January 18, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.TREATISE ON LIGHT — By
- 2.CHRISTIAAN HUYGENS
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR
- 5.TABLE OF MATTERS — Contained in this Treatise — TREATISE ON LIGHT
- 6.CHAPTER I — ON RAYS PROPAGATED IN STRAIGHT LINES
- 7.CHAPTER II — ON REFLEXION
- 8.CHAPTER III — ON REFRACTION
- 9.CHAPTER IV — ON THE REFRACTION OF THE AIR
- 10.CHAPTER V — ON THE STRANGE REFRACTION OF ICELAND CRYSTAL
- 11.CHAPTER VI — ON THE FIGURES OF THE TRANSPARENT BODIES — Which serve for Refraction and for Reflexion .
- 12.END.
- 13.INDEX
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