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== Bibliography == {{refbegin}} * {{anchor|BW}}M. Born and E. Wolf, 2002, ''[[Principles of Optics]]'', 7th Ed., Cambridge, 1999 (reprinted with corrections, 2002). * {{anchor|Chaves16}}J. Chaves, 2016, ''Introduction to Nonimaging Optics'', 2nd Ed., Boca Raton, FL: [[CRC Press]], {{ISBN|978-1-4822-0674-6}}. * {{anchor|Darr12}}O. Darrigol, 2012, ''A History of Optics: From Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century'', Oxford, {{ISBN|978-0-19-964437-7}}. * {{anchor|deWitte}}A.J. de Witte, 1959, "Equivalence of Huygens' principle and Fermat's principle in ray geometry", ''American Journal of Physics'', vol.{{nnbsp}}27, no.{{nnbsp}}5 (May 1959), pp.{{nnbsp}}293–301, {{doi|10.1119/1.1934839}}. ''Erratum'': In Fig.{{nnbsp}}7(b), each instance of "ray" should be "normal" (noted in vol.{{nnbsp}}27, no.{{nnbsp}}6, p.{{nnbsp}}387). * {{anchor|Fra74}}E. Frankel, 1974, "The search for a corpuscular theory of double refraction: Malus, Laplace and the {{sic|price}} competition of 1808", ''Centaurus'', vol.{{nnbsp}}18, no.{{nnbsp}}3 (September 1974), pp.{{nnbsp}}223–245, {{doi|10.1111/j.1600-0498.1974.tb00298.x}}. * {{anchor|SecMem}}A. Fresnel, 1827, "Mémoire sur la double réfraction", ''Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France'', vol.{{nnbsp}}{{serif|VII}} (for 1824, printed 1827), [https://archive.org/details/mmoiresdelacad07memo/page/44 pp.{{nnbsp}}45–176]; reprinted as "''Second'' mémoire ..." in ''Oeuvres complètes d'Augustin Fresnel'', vol.{{nnbsp}}2 (Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1868), [https://books.google.com/books?id=g6tzUG7JmoQC&pg=PA479 pp.{{nnbsp}}479–596]; translated by A.W. Hobson as [https://archive.org/details/scientificmemoir05memo/page/238 "Memoir on double refraction"], in R.{{nnbsp}}Taylor (ed.), ''Scientific Memoirs'', vol.{{nnbsp}}{{serif|V}} (London: Taylor & Francis, 1852), pp.{{nnbsp}}238–333. (Cited page numbers are from the translation.) * {{anchor|ToL}}C. Huygens, 1690, ''Traité de la Lumière'' (Leiden: Van der Aa), translated by S.P. Thompson as ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14725 Treatise on Light]'', University of Chicago Press, 1912; Project Gutenberg, 2005. (Cited page numbers match the 1912 edition and the Gutenberg HTML edition.) * {{anchor|Mihas06}}P. Mihas, 2006, [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225754858_Developing_Ideas_of_Refraction_Lenses_and_Rainbow_Through_the_Use_of_Historical_Resources "Developing ideas of refraction, lenses and rainbow through the use of historical resources"], ''Science & Education'', vol.{{nnbsp}}17, no.{{nnbsp}}7 (August {{Not a typo|2008}}), pp.{{nnbsp}}751–777 (online 6 September 2006), {{doi|10.1007/s11191-006-9044-8}}. * {{anchor|Opticks}}I. Newton, 1730, [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33504 ''Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light''], 4th Ed. (London: William Innys, 1730; Project Gutenberg, 2010); republished with foreword by A. Einstein and Introduction by E.T. Whittaker (London: George Bell & Sons, 1931); reprinted with additional Preface by I.B. Cohen and Analytical Table of Contents by D.H.D. Roller, Mineola, NY: Dover, 1952, 1979 (with revised preface), 2012. (Cited page numbers match the Gutenberg HTML edition and the Dover editions.) * {{anchor|Sabra81}}A.I. Sabra, 1981, ''Theories of Light: From Descartes to Newton'' (London: Oldbourne Book Co., 1967), reprinted Cambridge University Press, 1981, {{ISBN|0-521-28436-8}}. * {{anchor|Shapiro73}}A.E. Shapiro, 1973, "Kinematic optics: A study of the wave theory of light in the seventeenth century", ''Archive for History of Exact Sciences'', vol.{{nnbsp}}11, no.{{nnbsp}}2/3 (June 1973), pp.{{nnbsp}}134–266, {{doi|10.1007/BF00343533}}. * {{anchor|Young1809}}T. Young, 1809, [https://books.google.com/books?id=oLTiNeIM5IEC&pg=PA337 Article{{tsp}}{{serif|X}}] in the ''Quarterly Review'', vol.{{nnbsp}}2, no.{{nnbsp}}4 (November 1809), {{nowrap|pp.{{tsp}}337–48}}. * {{anchor|Zigg80}}A. Ziggelaar, 1980, "The sine law of refraction derived from the principle of Fermat – prior to Fermat? The theses of Wilhelm Boelmans S.J. in 1634", ''Centaurus'', vol.{{nnbsp}}24, no.{{nnbsp}}1 (September 1980), pp.{{nnbsp}}246–62, {{doi|10.1111/j.1600-0498.1980.tb00377.x}}. {{refend}}
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