10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANACLASTIC»
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1
Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy Through ...
The example I have in mind is the anaclastic line, which Descartes discusses in
Rule 8. The example is closely connected with optical investigations Descartes
undertook probably between 1626 and 1 628, and probably dates from that ...
2
Pindar's Paeans: A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of ...
Some sequences have traditional names (glyconic, do- drans, adonean,
pherecratean, hagesichorean, hipponacteum, telesillean, reizianum), others are
described as anaclastic forms of these, where the double short is displaced two
positions ...
Pindar, Ian Rutherford, 2001
3
Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and ...
Descartes called Kepler "my first instructor in optics" and may have become
interested in the problem of the anaclastic through a reading of the Ad
Vitellionem Paralipomena.41 When Descartes attacked the problem in the
middle of the 1620s, ...
4
The Cosmos of Science: Essays of Exploration
Once we have such an intuition, we can begin the constructive step, and follow,
in order, through the questions raised until we have answered the original
question of the shape of the anaclastic line. This would involve understanding the
...
John Earman, John D. Norton, 1998
5
Descartes' Metaphysical Physics
The problem that Descartes poses for himself is that of finding the anaclastic line,
that is, the shape of a surface "in which parallel rays are refracted in such a way
that they all intersect in a single point after refraction."7 Now, he notices — and ...
6
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes:
If,say, someone whose studies are confined to mathematics tries to find theline
called the 'anaclastic' in optics30 –the line from which parallel rays are so
refracted that they intersect at a single point – he will easilysee, by following
Rules Five ...
1012—13 : bacchius repeated as opening of anaclastic Glyconic 28 n;1 ——
Hermie: Furms 106—17: twopart form 156 348—51: Aeolian for festivity 60 348-
58: three-part form 156 366: spondee in second foot of Glyconic 145 n.
Catullus, xxxiv 1-4: anaclastic Gly- conic and Pherecratic 1 1 Euripides, Cyclops
608- 1 1 : parody of Aeschylean trochaics 116n. Alcestis: 144-9 86-7 : iambic for
dirge 88 244: Aeolian enneasyllable 154 398 : Anacreontic for lamentation 125m
...
9
Descartes' Natural Philosophy
Descartes mythologises his experience as an optician: method and optics in
Regulae 8 In Rule 8 of the Regulae Descartes describes, in a carefully chosen
subjunctive mood, how the law of refraction, the anaclastic curve, and the
physical ...
Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster, John Sutton, 2003
10
Lenses and Waves: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical ...
During the 1680s, Leibniz and Newton had published on anaclastic curves.
Huygens had first heard of Newton's derivation of anaclastic surfaces from Fatio
de Duillier in June 1687." Fatio, who had visited Huygens at the end of the
preceding ...
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, 2004
