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Michel Blay is Director of Research, Emeritus, at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. His research focuses on issues related to the mathematization of the physical sciences.
This principle states that every point a luminous disturbance reaches becomes a source of secondary waves, whose sum determines the subsequent shape of the wave.
Andrei Kostin is Academic Secratary at the Institute of Russian Literature in St. Petersburg and an expert on eighteenth-century Russian culture.
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Book Reviews. Phys. Perspect. 16, 480–490 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-014-0150-8
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