Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton

Target entity: Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton
Context triple: [A. I. Sabra, notableWork, Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton]

• A. Traité de la lumière
  Traité de la lumière is a seminal 1690 scientific treatise that presents Christiaan Huygens’ wave theory of light, including the principle now known as Huygens’ principle.
• B. An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
  An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision is a philosophical treatise by George Berkeley that explores how we perceive distance, size, and spatial properties through vision, arguing that such perceptions are learned rather than innate.
• C. Commentary on Newton's Principia
  Commentary on Newton's Principia is Émilie du Châtelet’s influential French translation and elucidation of Isaac Newton’s Principia, which helped popularize and clarify Newtonian physics in the 18th century.
• D. Newtonian optics
  Newtonian optics is the branch of physics developed by Isaac Newton that explains light primarily as a stream of particles to account for reflection, refraction, and color phenomena.
• E. Ptolemy's Optics
  Ptolemy's Optics is an influential ancient Greek treatise on vision, light, and visual perception that significantly shaped later theories of optics, including those of the European scholastic tradition.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton
Target entity description: Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton is a scholarly historical study examining the development of optical theories and concepts of light in early modern science from René Descartes through Isaac Newton.

• A. Traité de la lumière
  Traité de la lumière is a seminal 1690 scientific treatise that presents Christiaan Huygens’ wave theory of light, including the principle now known as Huygens’ principle.
• B. An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
  An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision is a philosophical treatise by George Berkeley that explores how we perceive distance, size, and spatial properties through vision, arguing that such perceptions are learned rather than innate.
• C. Commentary on Newton's Principia
  Commentary on Newton's Principia is Émilie du Châtelet’s influential French translation and elucidation of Isaac Newton’s Principia, which helped popularize and clarify Newtonian physics in the 18th century.
• D. Newtonian optics
  Newtonian optics is the branch of physics developed by Isaac Newton that explains light primarily as a stream of particles to account for reflection, refraction, and color phenomena.
• E. Ptolemy's Optics
  Ptolemy's Optics is an influential ancient Greek treatise on vision, light, and visual perception that significantly shaped later theories of optics, including those of the European scholastic tradition.
• F. None of above. chosen