Miraculous Success? Inconsistency and Untruth in Kirchhoff’s Diffraction Theory

DOI10.1093/BJPS/AXQ008zbMath1220.78001OpenAlexW2158341237MaRDI QIDQ3012300

Peter Vickers, Juha T. Saatsi

Publication date: 6 July 2011

Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/10523/1/10523.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

diffractionKirchhoff's theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03) Foundations in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A02)

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