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Summary

Description
Français : Huygens, Traité de la lumière , 1690 — Fig. 6 et 7 : Principe de Huygens, cas d'une source ponctuelle dans un milieu homogène.
English: Huygens, Traité de la lumière ( Treatise on Light ), 1690 — Fig. 6-7 : Huygens' principle, case of a ponctual source in a homogeneous environment.
Español: Huygens, Traité de la lumière ( Tratado de la luz ), 1690 — Fig. 6-7 : Principio de Huygens, en el caso de una fuente de luz puntual en un medio homogéneo.
Date
Source Huygens, Traité de la lumière , 1690 (réimpr. Gauthier-Villars, 1920)
Author
Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) wikidata:Q39599 s:en:Author:Christiaan Huygens q:en:Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Alternative names
Christiaen Huygens; Christian Huygens; Christian Hugenius
Description Dutch mathematician and astronomer
Date of birth/death 14 April 1629 Edit this at Wikidata 8 July 1695 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Den Haag , Nederland Netherlands
Work period before 1663 to 1695
Work location
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q39599
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Licensing

Public domain

The author died in 1695, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929.

Captions

Huygens' principle in the case of a ponctual source : the spherical wavefront CE issued from A is tangent to the spherical wavefronts issued from the secondary sources B, b, ..., G (taken from Huygens, ''Treatise on Light'', 1690).