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Lenses and Waves: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical Science of Optics in the Seventeenth Century - Archimedes 2004 edition
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
Lenses and Waves: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical Science of Optics in the Seventeenth Century - Archimedes 2004 edition
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
As Huygens applied his mathematical proficiency to practical issues pertaining to telescopes - including trying to design a perfect telescope by means of mathematical theory - his dioptrics is significant for our understanding of seventeenth-century relations between theory and practice.
289 pages, biography
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | September 3, 2004 |
ISBN13 | 9781402026973 |
Publishers | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
Pages | 289 |
Dimensions | 241 × 163 × 24 mm · 594 g |
Language | English |
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