Article ID: CBB444284147

Huddes Specilla circularia (2018)

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This article discusses Hudde’s Specilla circularia, published anonymously and without the name of the publisher in 1656. The only known printed copy was recently acquired by the Royal Library in The Hague. The treatise demonstrates by a mathematical calculation how spherical aberration in lenses can be corrected by means of a diaphragm. Thus, the work offered a theoretical justification for a practice that had already become common by trial and error. The work appears to have been eagerly read and studied by scholars in the second half of the seventeenth century, Spinoza and Leibniz among them, but in the end went into oblivion.

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Authors & Contributors
Zuidervaart, Huibert Jan
Cocquyt, Tiemen
de Jong, Theo
Delft, Marieke Van
Zuidervaart, Huib
Zuidervaart, Huib J.
Concepts
Optics
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Mathematics
Science and art
Natural philosophy
Correspondence and corresponding
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Enlightenment
16th century
Early modern
19th century
Places
Netherlands
Delft (Netherlands)
Great Britain
Hague (Nethelands)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
England
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
Dollond and Aitchison (firm)
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