Treatise on Light

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Christiaan Huygens 1912
English
  • Preface and Note by the Translator
  • I: On Rays Propagated in Straight Lines, Part 1
  • I: On Rays Propagated in Straight Lines, Part 2
  • II: On Reflexion
  • III: On Refraction, Part 1
  • III: On Refraction, Part 2
  • IV: On the Refraction of the Air
  • V: On the Strange Refraction of Iceland Chrystal, Part 1
  • V: On the Strange Refraction of Iceland Chrystal, Part 2
  • V: On the Strange Refraction of Iceland Chrystal, Part 3
  • V: On the Strange Refraction of Iceland Chrystal, Part 4
  • VI: On the Figures of the Transparent Bodies, Part 1
  • VI: On the Figures of the Transparent Bodies, Part 2
Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before Newton's Opticks. The book explains how light travels (i.e., that it has a certain velocity), and what happens when it hits a surface (refraction and reflection). A large portion of the book is devoted to the double refraction occurring in Iceland chrystal, and all drawn conclusions are proved geometrically.

Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 1695) was a prominent physicist and astronomer. His main discoveries are the centrifugal force, collision laws for bodies and the argument that light consists of waves. He was a contemporary of Galilei and Descartes, and a member of the French Royal Society since 1663. (Summary by Availle)

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