Article ID: CBB000045804

Light hypotheses (1987)

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Description On the scientific methodologies of 19th-century British theorists on the wave or particle nature of light.


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Authors & Contributors
Chen, Xiang
Jordi Taltavull, Marta
Balltondre, Mónica
Buchwald, Jed Z.
Cantor, Geoffrey N.
Dupré, Sven
Journals
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
European Physical Journal H
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Annalen der Physik
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Publishers
University of Pittsburgh
Kluwer Academic
Concepts
Optics
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Physics
Light
Geometry
Scientific apparatus and instruments
People
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Cauchy, Augustin Louis
Darwin, Charles Galton
Descartes, René
Fresnel, Augustin Jean
Kepler, Johannes
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
16th century
18th century
20th century
Places
British Isles
Spain
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