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Rainbow

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2016

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Jed Z. Buchwald
Edited by
Lawrence Nolan
Jed Z. Buchwald
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology
Lawrence Nolan
Affiliation:
California State University, Long Beach
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The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon , pp. 627 - 633
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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Boyer, Carl. 1987. The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Buchwald, Jed Z. 2008. “Descartes's Experimental Journey past the Prism and through the Invisible World to the Rainbow,” Annals of Science 65: 1–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Garber, Daniel. 1993. “Descartes and Experiment in the Discourse and Essays,” in Essays on the Philosophy and Science of René Descartes, ed. Voss, S.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 288–310.Google Scholar
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  • Rainbow
  • Edited by Lawrence Nolan, California State University, Long Beach
  • Book: The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon
  • Online publication: 05 January 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511894695.215
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  • Rainbow
  • Edited by Lawrence Nolan, California State University, Long Beach
  • Book: The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon
  • Online publication: 05 January 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511894695.215
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  • Rainbow
  • Edited by Lawrence Nolan, California State University, Long Beach
  • Book: The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon
  • Online publication: 05 January 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511894695.215
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