Treatise on Light

work by Huygens
Also known as: “Traité de la lumière”

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  • Christiaan Huygens
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    Traité de la Lumière (Treatise on Light), already largely completed by 1678, was also published in 1690. In it he again showed his need for ultimate mechanical explanations in his discussion of the nature of light. But his beautiful explanations of reflection and refraction—far superior to those of Newton—were…

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