@inbook {613250,
	title = {Descartes{\textquoteright} Optics},
	booktitle = {The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon},
	year = {2015},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Descartes{\textquoteright} work on optics spanned his entire career and represents a fascinating area of inquiry from both the perspectives of the history of science and his systematic natural philosophy. This entry offers an\&nbsp;overview of Descartes{\textquoteright} understanding of light, his derivations of the two central laws of geometrical optics, and a sampling of the optical phenomena he sought to explain.},
	url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-descartes-lexicon/optics/D53374CD724F0268F64B8EDBF2FE6048$\#$fndtn-information},
	author = {Jeffrey K. McDonough},
	editor = {Lawrence Nolan}
}
