Descartes' law
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Descartes' law — Des·cartes law (da kahrtsґ) [Renй Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher, 1596–1650] see under law … Medical dictionary
Descartes' law — Optics. See Snell s law. [named after René DESCARTES] … Useful english dictionary
Descartes law — noun Snells law … Wiktionary
Descartes' law — the sine of the angle of incidence bears a constant relation to the sine of the angle of refraction for two given media. Called also l. of sines and Snell s l … Medical dictionary
Descartes — noun A French philosopher and mathematician, who lived from 1596 to 1650. See Also: Descartes law … Wiktionary
Descartes: methodology — Stephen Gaukroger INTRODUCTION The seventeenth century is often referred to as the century of the Scientific Revolution, a time of fundamental scientific change in which traditional theories were either replaced by new ones or radically… … History of philosophy
law of refraction — n a law in physics: in the refraction of radiation at the interface between two isotropic media the incident ray and the corresponding refracted ray are coplanar with the refracting surface at the point of incidence and the ratio of the sine of… … Medical dictionary
law of sines — Descartes l … Medical dictionary
Descartes, René — Des·cartes (dā kärtʹ), René. 1596 1650. French mathematician, philosopher, and scientist who is considered the father of analytic geometry and the founder of modern rationalism. His main works, Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) and… … Universalium
Descartes, René — (1596 1650) philosopher, scholar Born in La Haye, Touraine, the son of a minor nobleman, René Descartes began his education at the Jesuit school of La Flèche in Anjou. He studied law at the university of Poitiers, and in 1618 entered the… … France. A reference guide from Renaissance to the Present
