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Treatise on Light

Treatise on Light

by Christiaan Huygens

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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
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eBook-No.
14725
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14725
Release Date
January 18, 2005
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.TREATISE ON LIGHT — By
  2. 2.CHRISTIAAN HUYGENS
  3. 3.PREFACE
  4. 4.NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR
  5. 5.TABLE OF MATTERS — Contained in this Treatise — TREATISE ON LIGHT
  6. 6.CHAPTER I — ON RAYS PROPAGATED IN STRAIGHT LINES
  7. 7.CHAPTER II — ON REFLEXION
  8. 8.CHAPTER III — ON REFRACTION
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV — ON THE REFRACTION OF THE AIR
  10. 10.CHAPTER V — ON THE STRANGE REFRACTION OF ICELAND CRYSTAL
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI — ON THE FIGURES OF THE TRANSPARENT BODIES — Which serve for Refraction and for Reflexion .
  12. 12.END.
  13. 13.INDEX

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