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  1. The Harvest of Optics: Descartes, Mydorge, and their paths to a theory of refraction.Robert Goulding - 2022 - Annals of Science 79 (2):164-214.
    In 1626, René Descartes and Claude Mydorge worked closely together on the problem of refraction, apparently discovering what is now known as the sine law of refraction. They constructed a plano-hyperbolic lens in order to test out the truth of this mathematical relationship. In 1637, Descartes finally published the sine method of determining refractions in his Dioptrique, which also demonstrated, on the basis of this relationship, that the hyperbola and ellipse were anaclastic lines (that is, that a lens with their (...)
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