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Lenses and Waves

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266 LIST OF FIGURES<br />

Figure 53 Diagram of Huygens’ construction for strange refraction.<br />

Figure 54 Huygens’ alternative for Bartholinus’ law.<br />

Figure 55 Huygens: description of polarization.<br />

Figure 56 Ango’s explanation of refraction.<br />

Figure 57 The sine law in Tractatus.<br />

Figure 58 Huygens’ principle.<br />

Figure 59 Huygens: two rays refracted by a plane surface.<br />

Figure 60 Huygens: wave refracted by a plane surface forming a caustic.<br />

Figure 61 Huygens: wave refracted at the plane surface of a glass medium.<br />

Figure 62 Huygens: “Causam mirae refractionis in Crystallo Isl<strong>and</strong>ica”.<br />

Figure 63 Huygens: strange refraction of an arbitrary ray.<br />

Figure 64 Huygens: waves around a source of light<br />

Figure 65 Huygens’ principle.<br />

Figure 66 Huygens’ explanation of refraction.<br />

Figure 67 Huygens: refraction of the perpendicular.<br />

Figure 68 Huygens: orientation of spheroid in the crystal.<br />

Figure 69 Huygens: shape of the spheroidal wave.<br />

Figure 70 Construction of the refraction of an arbitrary ray in Traité de la Lumière.<br />

Figure 71 Hobbes’ rays.<br />

Figure 72 Hobbes: refraction.<br />

Figure 73 Hobbes’ derivation of the sine law.<br />

Figure 74 Refraction in Principia.<br />

Figure 75 The sine law in Opticks.<br />

Figure 76 Huygens: new measurement of strange refraction.<br />

Figure 77 Huygens’ EUPHKA of August 1679.<br />

Figure 78 Huygens: chromatic aberration of lenses.

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