Kinematic optics: A study of the wave theory of light in the seventeenth century

DOI10.1007/BF00343533zbMath0274.01018OpenAlexW1992848195MaRDI QIDQ2264652

Alan E. Shapiro

Publication date: 1973

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00343533

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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