Giovanni Rizzetti: Challenge to Newton's Optical Experiments
Scope and Contents
The volume contains a draft letter from Rizzetti to Christino Martinelli, c.1720, with a description of Newton's experiment leading to the discovery of the aberration of light, and Rizzetti's experiment contradicting Newton's results; and two diagrams on refraction (p.13), the 'Anatomical composition of the eye' and the 'Aberration in telescopes with different lenses'. There are references to Descartes, Huygens and Tschirnhaus.
Dates
- Creation: 1720 (Circa)
Creator
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Extent
1 volume(s) (1 volume)
Language of Materials
Italian
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased 1995
Bibliography
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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