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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.

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. By Christiaan Huygens. Rendered into Englich by Silvanus P. Thompson.
Author
Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.
Publication
London, MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1912.

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Additional Authors
Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips), 1851-1916
Description
xii, 128 [2] pages diagrams; 23 x 19 cm
Uniform Title
Traité de la lumière. English
Alternative Title
Traité de la lumière.
Subject
  • Wave theory of light > Early works to 1800
  • Refraction, Double > Early works to 1800
  • Refraction, Double
  • Wave theory of light
Genre/Form
Early works.
Contents
On rays propagated in straight lines -- On reflexion -- On refraction -- On the refraction of the air -- On the strange refraction of Iceland crystal -- On the figures of transparent bodies which serve for refraction and for reflexion.
LCCN
14000572
OCLC
  • ocm04152482
  • 4152482
  • SCSB-125219
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library