Treatise on Light
Treatise on Light (French: Traité de la Lumière) is a 1690 book written by the Dutch polymath Christiaan Huygens on his wave theory of light. Huygens' starting point was Descartes' theory, as presented in the Dioptrique, which Huygens aimed to supplant. Huygens' theory is also seen as the historical rival of Newton's theory, which was presented in the Opticks.[1][2][3]
- For Ibn al-Haytham's Treatise on Light, see Ibn al-Haytham#Optical treatises.
1690 edition
See also
References
- Erik Gregersen, ed. (2010). The Britannica Guide to Sound and Light. Britannica Educational Publishing. p. 306. ISBN 978-1-61530-374-8.
- A. I. Sabra (1981). Theories of Light, from Descartes to Newton. CUP Archive. p. 186. ISBN 978-0-521-28436-3.
- Frank Träger, ed. (2012). Springer Handbook of Lasers and Optics. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 5. ISBN 978-3-642-19409-2.
External links
- C. Huygens, Traité de la Lumière, Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, 1690; archive.org/details/bub_gb_kVxsaYdZaaoC
- C. Huygens (translated by Silvanus P. Thompson), Treatise on Light, London: Macmillan, 1912; archive.org/details/treatiseonlight031310mbp (and Errata)
- C. Huygens (translated by Silvanus P. Thompson, 1912), Treatise on Light, Project Gutenberg, 2005, gutenberg.org/ebooks/14725 (and Errata)
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