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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe THE FIRE WITHIN THE EYE: A HISTORICAL ESSAY ON THE NATURE AND MEANING OF LIGHT * _David Park_ Princeton University Press: 1997. Pp.
377$29.95, £163;24.95 One of the triumphs of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century was the understanding of optical phenomena. René Descartes explained how the rainbow was
produced by reflection and refraction in drops of water in the atmosphere, and Newton became famous for showing that white light is a mixture of different colours. Newton was celebrated in
verse, and the admiration of his contemporaries is captured in Pope's famous epitaph: “Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night,/God said, ‘Let Newton be!’ and all was light”.
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AFFILIATIONS * the Institut d'Histoire des Sciences, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg 7, rue de l'Université, 67000, Strasbourg, France William Shea Authors * William Shea
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