Light propagates and spreads not only directly, through refraction, and reflection, but also by a fourth mode, diffraction.


Physico-mathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride, aliisque adnexis libri duo: opus posthumum, published in Bologna (1665)

Francesco Maria Grimaldi Quotes

Light propagates and spreads not only directly, through refraction, and reflection, but also by a fourth mode, diffraction.

Light propagates and spreads not only directly, through refraction, and reflection, but also by a fourth mode, diffraction.

Light propagates and spreads not only directly, through refraction, and reflection, but also by a fourth mode, diffraction.

Light propagates and spreads not only directly, through refraction, and reflection, but also by a fourth mode, diffraction.