The law of refraction and Kepler’s heuristics

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...

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Autores Principales: Cardona, Carlos Alberto, Gutiérrez Valderrama, Juliana
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Publicado: Springer 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22744
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-019-00236-w
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spelling ir-10336-227442022-05-02T12:37:20Z The law of refraction and Kepler’s heuristics Cardona, Carlos Alberto Gutiérrez Valderrama, Juliana refraction Kepler’s heuristics 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. © 2019, The Author(s). 2020 2020-05-25T23:57:47Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 14320657 00039519 https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22744 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-019-00236-w eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf Springer instname:Universidad del Rosario
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topic refraction
Kepler’s
heuristics
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Kepler’s
heuristics
Cardona, Carlos Alberto
Gutiérrez Valderrama, Juliana
The law of refraction and Kepler’s heuristics
description 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. © 2019, The Author(s).
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