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    work De vi Centrifuga, a decade before Newton. In optics, he is best known for his wave theory of light, which he described in his Traité de la Lumière (1690)...
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    blue lights. Palmer, George. 1777. Theory of Colors and Vision, London: Leacroft. Palmer, G. 1786. Theorie de la lumiere, Paris: Hardouin and Gattey....
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    Tamara Préaud et Guilhem Scherf (ed.), La manufacture des lumières. La sculpture à Sèvres de Louis XV à la Révolution, [Exhibition Catalogue], Éditions...
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    Clint Eastwood (category Cecil B. DeMille Award Golden Globe winners)
    honored by the Lumière Award (in honor of the Lumière Brothers, inventors of the Cinematograph) during the first edition of the Lumière Film Festival in...
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  • Raven De La Croix (born Lynn Christie Martin; August 24, 1947) is an American actress and stripper known for her lead role in the 1976 Russ Meyer film...
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    Speed of light (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (1849). "Sur une expérience relative à la vitesse de propagation de la lumière" (PDF). Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences (in French). 29: 90–92,...
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    "Huygens' Principle". MathPages. Retrieved 2017-10-03. Chr. Huygens, Traité de la Lumière (drafted 1678; published in Leyden by Van der Aa, 1690), translated...
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  • « BIBI's Hell, it's here ! », Arbre en Lumière, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2012 « The Dragon King », Fêtes des Lumières, Lyon, December 2012 « The Bibigloo »...
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  • "Rhetorique et Algèbre au temps des Lumières. La question de la nature des quantités imaginaires selon Euker, Daviet de Foncenex et Laplace" (PDF). Rendiconti...
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    Persistence of vision (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    thesis Sur quelques propriétés des impressions produites par la lumière sur l'organe de la vue. The anorthoscope was a disc with an anamorphic picture...
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