Newtonian ballistic optics tested at the Jupiter satellites

DOI10.1007/BF02327156zbMath0856.01013MaRDI QIDQ1924553

Jean Eisenstaedt

Publication date: 3 March 1997

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Clairautearly corpuscular opticsNewtonian optics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03)

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