The play of colours of prisms

2012/07/15 by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Arts and Humanities · Physics and Astronomy · #History of Science and Medicine #physics.pop-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1207.3504

arxiv created 2012/07/15 · arxiv updated 2012/07/17

Abstract

A short history of prisms from Lucius Anneus Seneca to George Ravenscroft.

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