Descartes''s Theory of Light and Refraction : A Discourse on Method, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 77, Part 3)
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0871697734
ISBN-13
9780871697738
Publisher
American Philosophical Society Press
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American Philosophical Society Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 1987
Print length
92 Pages
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Calculus & mathematical analysisCalculus and mathematical analysis
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Contents: (1) Historical Overview; & Descartes''s Perspectivist Sources; (2) Analysis of Refraction: Cartesian Light-Theory; & A Critical Evaluation; (3) The Foundations of Perspectivist Optics: Perspectivist Light-Theory; Quantization of Light; & Comparison with Descartes''s Theory of Light; (4) The Perspectivist Analysis of Refraction: Physical Model; Physical "Explanation" & The Final Cause; (5) Perspectivist Grounds of the Cartesian Proof: Mathematical Implications; From Cosines to Sines; & Descartes Revisited; (6) Cartesian Light-Theory as a Culmination; Toward a Kinetic Theory of Light; & Epistemological Consequences. App.: The Sine-Law Before Descartes; The Fermat-Descartes Controversy; & Kepler, Descartes & the Anaclastic. Illustrations.
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