Kepler: Analogies in the search for the law of refraction

Suárez, Carlos Alberto Cardona

doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2016.05.004

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“…17 Para ver qué tipo de correspondencia falló con las dos primeras familias y cómo habría sido posible que la metodología de Kepler condujese a la Ley de Snell-Descartes, véase C. Cardona y J. Gutiérrez (2020). 18 Un estudio detallado de los argumentos que llevaron al filósofo a dicho resultado puede seguirse en C. Cardona (2016).…”

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Leonardo da Vinci y la comparación ojo-cámara obscura

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The law of refraction and Kepler’s heuristics

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Johannes Kepler dedicated much of his work to discover a law for the refraction of light. Unfortunately, he formulated an incorrect law. Nevertheless, it was useful for anticipating the behavior of light in some specific conditions. Some believe that Kepler did not have the elements to formulate the law that was later accepted by the scientific community, that is, the Snell-Descartes law. However, in this paper, we propose a model that agrees with Kepler's heuristics and that is also successful in anticipating the behavior of light when it passes through a surface that separates two media with different optical densities. This model adopts strategies that were recommended by Kepler in two types of analogies. The obstacles that led to the failure of the two types of analogies are presented in the article, and we argue that the model proposed here could overcome these specific obstacles. Finally, we show how the proposed model could be articulated with Kepler's metaphysics of light.

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Kepler: Analogies in the search for the law of refraction

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Leonardo da Vinci y la comparación ojo-cámara obscura

Leonardo da Vinci y la comparación ojo-cámara obscura

The law of refraction and Kepler’s heuristics

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