Descartes 'Opticien': The construction of the law of refraction and the manufacture of its physical rationales, 1618–29 [Book Review]

In Stephen Gaukroger, John Andrew Schuster & John Sutton (eds.), Descartes' Natural Philosophy. New York: Routledge. pp. 258--312 (2000)
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