Editing Arago spot (section)

== References ==
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<ref name="delisle1715">{{cite journal|last1=Delisle|first1=J.-N.|title=Sur l'expérience que j'ai rapportée à l'Academie d'un anneau lumineux semblable à celui que l'on apperçoit autour de la lune dans les eclipses totales du soleil|journal=Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences ... Avec les Mémoires de Mathématique & de Physique|date=1715|pages=166–169|trans-title=On the experience that I reported to the Academy about a luminous ring similar to that which one sees around the moon during a total solar eclipse|language=fr| url = http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3592w/f300.image.langFR}}  Delisle mentions that when a small ball was illuminated by sunlight, the ball's shadow contained alternating bright and dark rings concentric with the center of the ball's shadow.</ref>

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<ref name="ufimtsev">{{cite book|last1=Ufimtsev|first1=P.Ya.|title=Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction|date=
1971|pages=46| url = https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD0733203}} ...[the field in the shadow] may be investigated as the sum of the spherical waves from two "luminous" points on the rim of the disk, [one being the] closest to the observation point [and the other] is the furthest from it.</ref>

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