Descartes and the Radius of the Rainbow

@article{Boyer1952DescartesAT,
  title={Descartes and the Radius of the Rainbow},
  author={Carl B. Boyer},
  journal={Isis},
  year={1952},
  volume={43},
  pages={95 - 98}
}
EW scientists have been subjected to charges of plagiarism more frequently than Descartes (I596-I650). In particular, each of the appendices to the Discours de la methode has been questioned. La dioptrique long was believed to have been derived from work of Snell;' Les meteores once was regarded as inspired by the ideas of Kepler and De Dominis ;2 and in La geometrie some critics thought they saw unacknowledged indebtedness to Harriot and Oresme.3 None of these charges has been substantiated… Expand
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