The 1740 resolution of the Fermat-Descartes controversy

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(89)90035-9zbMath0674.01008OpenAlexW2051326592MaRDI QIDQ1121251

Pietro Nastasi, Luigi Indorato

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(89)90035-9

zbMATH Keywords

OpticsNewtonDescartesFermatPietro Di Martino

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03)

Cites Work

• The mathematical technique in Fermat's deduction of the law of refraction
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