Interactive animation of Descartes Refraction

DOI

This visualization shows how René Descartes explained the refraction of light in terms of his mechanistic philosophy (cfr. 'Les Météores' in Discours de la Méthode, 1637). Colour corresponds to the rotational velocity of a particle, and can be altered at the interface of two mediums. Though succesful as basis for his treatment of the appearence of the rainbow, Descartes' refraction model soon was famously questioned by Isaac Newton's prism experiment or 'experimentum crucis'.

The visualisations have been created within the project Dynamic Drawings in Enhanced Publications, a collaboration between Brill, HuygensING, DANS and WildCard.

This dataset is an archival copy of the visualisation published on the Dynamic Drawings project website: http://demo-brill.dans.knaw.nl/

[Note: a screencast of the visualisation will be added shortly]

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zby-k8cz
Metadata Access https://ssh.datastations.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.17026/dans-zby-k8cz
Provenance
Creator D Nagel; T. Cocquyt
Publisher DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities
Contributor ML Hoogerwerf; Brill
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC0 1.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess true
Contact ML Hoogerwerf (DANS)
Representation
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Version 1.1
Discipline Humanities