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Quotation from Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens
“So it arises that around each particle there is made a wave of which that particle is the centre.”
Treatise on Light, Chapter I, trans. Silvanus P. Thompson (1912)
The statement of what is now called Huygens's principle, the basis of all the constructions that follow.
Citation: "So it arises that around each particle there is made a wave of which that particle is the centre." — Christiaan Huygens, Treatise on Light, Chapter I, trans. Silvanus P. Thompson (1912). (id huygens-treatise-on-light-q6)
Portrait: Christiaan-huygens4, Bernard Vaillant, Public domain.
