On the Rainbow, a Robert Grosseteste's Treatise on Optics

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

International Journal of Sciences, 2013, vol. 2, issue 09, 108-113

Abstract: On the Rainbow is one of the short scientific treatises written by Robert Grosseteste. The Latin title is De Iride. In the first part of this treatise, we can find a discussion on reflection and refraction of light, described in the framework of the geometrical optics. In the second part, Grosseteste is writing about the rainbow and how its colors are created.

Keywords: History of Science; Medieval Science; Optics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.18483/ijSci.296

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