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Treatise on light in which are explained the causes of that which occurs in reflexion, & in refraction, and particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland crystal / by Christiaan Huygens ; rendered into English by Silvanus P. Thompson.

Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.
Contributor:
Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips), 1851-1916.
Series:
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Standardized Title:
Traité de la lumière. English
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
Wave theory of light.
Refraction.
Reflection (Optics).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 128, [2], p.) : ill.
Other Title:
Treatise on light
Place of Publication:
London : Macmillan, 1912 (Chiswick Press)
Notes:
Translation of: Traité de la lumière.
Includes index.
Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
OCLC:
689381186

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