Timeline for What was Newton's own explanation of Newton's rings?
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| Jan 16, 2020 at 10:04 | comment | added | Peter Diehr | You can find Newton's comments in his work on Optics. Feynman goes over this in his Physics. | |
| Oct 27, 2019 at 15:43 | comment | added | vy32 | This literally makes no sense to me. Did Newton think that this was a clear explanation, or was he just fudging it? | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 19:02 | comment | added | 299792458 | Future visitors to this post should also see this post on HSM.SE, for more detailed context. | |
| Mar 29, 2016 at 9:00 | comment | added | Farcher | Newton believed in corpuscles not waves and so his statement above is no more than a restatement of his observations rather than an explanation based on his corpuscular theory of light. | |
| S Mar 29, 2016 at 2:05 | history | suggested | porglezomp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Move Peter's transcript of the images from the comments into the answer.
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| Mar 29, 2016 at 1:32 | comment | added | CuriousOne | @Hackless: You may want to compare that against the Huygens-Fresnel principle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens%E2%80%93Fresnel_principle. One could easily implement both in a ray tracer and see how false Newton was... | |
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| Mar 29, 2016 at 1:08 | vote | accept | Hackless | ||
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| Mar 28, 2016 at 22:10 | comment | added | CuriousOne | Yayks... if we give him a bit of leeway, he basically tried to think about the kernel of a path integral over 300 years before Dirac and Feynman. He missed that one had to consider all possible paths to make it work, of course. :-) | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 21:19 | history | answered | Peter Diehr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |