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Dutch Snellius sounds like an obscure baseball player from the 1940s
by tomcam 1y ago
Dutch Snellius sounds like an obscure baseball player from the 1940s
- teekert 1y agoSnellius was the Latin name of the Dutch mathematician Willebrord Snel van Royen [0] (" ... best known for Snell's law, named after him, which indicates how light rays are broken when light passes through different materials"). [0] https://servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/spaces/WIKI/pages/30660184/Snellius https://servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/spaces/WIKI/pages/30660184/...