Chapter ID: CBB000774655

Constructive Thinking: A Case for Dioptrics (2007)

unapi

Description The focus is on works of Descartes, Huygens, and Hartsoeker.


Included in

Book Roberts, Lissa Louise; Schaffer, Simon; Dear, Peter Robert (2007) The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation. unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000774655/

Similar Citations

Article Heeffer, Albrecht; (2006)
The Logic of Disguise: Descartes' Discovery of the Law of Refraction (/isis/citation/CBB000772577/)

Chapter Osler, Margaret J.; (2008)
Descartes's Optics: Light, the Eye, and Visual Perception (/isis/citation/CBB001035292/)

Article Gregorio Baldin; (2018)
Points, Atoms and Rays of Light: History of a Controversy from Mersenne to Hobbes (/isis/citation/CBB119606416/)

Book Descartes, René; (2001)
Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology (/isis/citation/CBB000100199/)

Article Rashed, Roshdi; (2005)
De la dioptrique à la géométrie: les ovales de Descartes (/isis/citation/CBB000701075/)

Article Abou-Nemeh, S. Catherine; (2013)
The Natural Philosopher and the Microscope: Nicolas Hartsoeker Unravels Nature's “Admirable Œconomy” (/isis/citation/CBB001252609/)

Thesis Abou-Nemeh, Samar Catherine; (2012)
Nicolas Hartsoeker's Systeme of Nature: Physics by Conjecture and Optics by Design in Early Modern Europe (/isis/citation/CBB001567372/)

Article Schuster, John A.; (2012)
Physico-Mathematics and the Search for Causes in Descartes' Optics---1619--1637 (/isis/citation/CBB001211473/)

Thesis Andrew Joseph Romiti; (2016)
Cartesian Mind and Its Concept of Space: A Contribution to the Project of Jacob Klein (/isis/citation/CBB641773958/)

Article David Blanco Laserna; (2015)
Luz y ondas. Huygens: la luz como propagación ondulatoria (/isis/citation/CBB897271276/)

Book Francesco Maurolico; Riccardo Bellé; Ken'ichi Takahashi; (2017)
Francisci Maurolyci Optica (/isis/citation/CBB397100263/)

Article Zemplén, Gábor Á.; Demeter, Tamás; (2010)
Being Charitable to Scientific Controversies: On the Demonstrativity of Newton's Experimentum Crucis (/isis/citation/CBB001221445/)

Book Smith, A. Mark; (2014)
From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics (/isis/citation/CBB001422024/)

Chapter Giudice, Franco; (2010)
The Visible World: Aspects of Optics in the Seventeenth Century (/isis/citation/CBB001024884/)

Article Cozzoli, Daniele; (2010)
The Development of Mersenne's Optics (/isis/citation/CBB000954427/)

Chapter Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan; (2012)
A View from a Mountaintop: The Development of Isaac Vossius' Optics, 1658--1666 (/isis/citation/CBB001200298/)

Book Descartes, René; Lojacono, Ettore; (2002)
La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle de René Descartes (/isis/citation/CBB000201460/)

Authors & Contributors
Descartes, René
Laserna, David Blanco
Romiti, Andrew Joseph
Abou-Nemeh, Samar Catherine
Zemplén, Gábor Á.
Takahashi, Ken'ichi
Journals
Synthese
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Perspectives on Science
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Monist: An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry
History of Science
Publishers
Guida Editori
University of Chicago Press
The Catholic University of America
Hackett Publishing Company
Franco Angeli
Fabrizio Serra Editore
Concepts
Optics
Physics
Light
Mathematics
Geometry
Natural philosophy
People
Descartes, René
Mersenne, Marin
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Kepler, Johannes
Hartsoeker, Niklaas
Fermat, Pierre de
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Medieval
Ancient
Places
Netherlands
Europe
Italy
Greece
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment