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Category Archives: History of science
Classic Science Paper: Otto Wiener’s experiment (1890)
Update: In my haste to finish this “monster” post, I neglected to include an introduction to standing waves, an explanation which is crucial to understanding the experiment. That oversight has been corrected. A couple of weeks ago I issued a … Continue reading
Posted in History of science, Optics, Physics
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