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Quotes from Accord de différentes loix de la nature qui avoient jusqu’ici paru incompatibles — Pierre Louis Maupertuis

1698–1759 France

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The most beautiful discoveries since the Renaissance, indeed since the beginnings of all science, are the laws governing light, whether moving through a uniform medium, or being reflected from an opaque surface, or changing direction upon entering another transparent medium.

Accord de différentes loix de la nature qui avoient jusqu’ici paru incompatibles (1744)

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