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Optics in the age of Euler

by Casper Hakfoort

1995 243 pages eng

According to received historiography, the fundamental issue in eighteenth-century optics was whether light could be understood as the emission of particles or as the motion of waves in a subtle medium. Moreover, the emission theory of light was supposed to have been dominant in the eighteenth centu…

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