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Quotation from Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens
“I hope also that there will be some who by following these beginnings will penetrate much further into this question than I have been able to do, since the subject must be far from being exhausted.”
Treatise on Light, Preface, trans. Silvanus P. Thompson (1912)
Huygens closes the preface by naming colours and other topics he has left untouched.
Citation: "I hope also that there will be some who by following these beginnings will penetrate much further into this question than I have been able to do, since the subject must be far from being exhausted." — Christiaan Huygens, Treatise on Light, Preface, trans. Silvanus P. Thompson (1912). (id huygens-treatise-on-light-q2)
Portrait: Christiaan-huygens4, Bernard Vaillant, Public domain.
