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so:text | Descartes maintained his confidence in the instantaneity of light. … Yet in his derivation of the law of refraction, Descartes reasoned that light travelled faster in a dense medium than in one less dense. He seems to have had no qualms about comparing infinite magnitudes! (en) |
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so:description | The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics (1959) (en) |
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