
Descartes's Theory of Light and Refraction
A Discourse on Method, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 77, Part 3)
A. Mark Smith(Author)
American Philosophical Society Press
Published on 1. January 1987
Book
Hardback
92 pages
978-0-87169-773-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87169-773-8 (9780871697738)
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A. Mark Smith