Description Discusses an account of measurements of the velocity of light by James Young (1811-1883) and George Forbes (1849-1936) around 1880 based upon Fizeau's toothed-wheel method.
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A History of Light and Colour Measurements: Science in the Shadows
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Lambert, Johann Heinrich;
(2001)
Photometry, or, On the measure and gradations of light, colors and shade: Translation from the Latin of Photometria, sive, De mensura et gradibus luminis, colorum et umbrae
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Freire, Olival, Jr.;
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Demeter, Tamás;
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Being Charitable to Scientific Controversies: On the Demonstrativity of Newton's Experimentum Crucis
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Fick, Dieter;
Kant, Horst;
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Walther Bothe's Contributions to the Understanding of the Wave-Particle Duality of Light
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Explaining the Laser’s Light: Classical Versus Quantum Electrodynamics in the 1960s
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Marcum, James A.;
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The Nature of Light and Color: Goethe's “Der Versuch als Vermittler” versus Newton's Experimentum Crucis
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Ben-Chaim, Michael;
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The discovery of natural goods: Newton's vocation as an “experimental philosopher”
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Pedersen, Kurt Møller;
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Leonhard Euler's Wave Theory of Light
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Passagenwerk 1850. Bild und Zahl in den physiologischen Zeitexperimenten von Hermann von Helmholtz
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