Abstract:This volume devoted to astronomical and atmospheric refraction is singular in several ways.First, by the apparent simplicity of the phenomenon discussed here, the refraction of light, taught in high schools with the famous Snell-Descartes formula found at the beginning of the xvii th century, and whose study, going back to the x th century with Ibn Sahl, did not cease to fascinate the astronomers in front of the difficulty of observing the stars after the travel of their light in the Earth's atmosphere.Then, b… Show more
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