- La
dioptrique (in
English Dioptrique, Optics, or Dioptrics) is a
short treatise by René Descartes. It was
published in 1637
included in one of the Essays...
- in Amsterdam. The book was
intended as an
introduction to
three works:
Dioptrique, Météores [fr], and Géométrie. Géométrie
contains Descartes's initial...
-
parts of this work in
three essays: "Les Météores" (The Meteors), "La
Dioptrique" (Dioptrics) and La Géométrie (Geometry),
preceded by an introduction...
- (Galileo had
called it the
occhiolino 'little eye'). René
Descartes (
Dioptrique, 1637)
describes microscopes wherein a
concave mirror, with its concavity...
- Heidelberg. The last
years of his life were
spent in Utrecht.
Essay de
dioptrique (in French). Paris: Jean Anisson. 1694.
Principes de
physique (in French)...
- subject. La Géométrie and two
other appendices, also by Descartes, La
Dioptrique (Optics) and Les Météores (Meteorology), were
published with the Discourse...
-
leaving for
Sweden (where he died 4
months later). His Les Météores, La
Dioptrique and La Géométrie were
published in the
first period and his
letters to...
- a soul. (Friedman 79) In 1694,
Nicolaas Hartsoeker, in his
Essai de
Dioptrique concerning things large and
small that
could be seen with
optical lenses...
-
universal joint mechanism was
later called a
scioptic ball. In his 1637 book
Dioptrique French philosopher,
mathematician and
scientist René
Descartes suggested...
- Lawrence, Cera R. (2008). Hartsoeker's
Homunculus Sketch from
Essai de
Dioptrique.
Embryo Project Encyclopedia. ISSN 1940-5030.
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