Lenses and Waves: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical Science of Optics in the Seventeenth Century By Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
English | PDF | 2005 | 294 Pages | ISBN : 1402026978 | 3.5 MB
In 1690, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) published Traité de la Lumière, containing his renowned wave theory of light. It is considered a landmark in seventeenth-century science, for the way Huygens mathematized the corpuscular nature of light and his probabilistic conception of natural knowledge.