Snell-Descartes Law/Also known as

Snell-Descartes Law: Also known as

The Snell-Descartes law is also known as just Snell's law.

In France this law is called la loi de Descartes or loi de Snell-Descartes, while elsewhere it tends to be known as Snell's law, or Snell's law of refraction.

Some sources refer to it as the sine law but on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ this is used as a different form of the name law of sines.


Sources

  • 1972: George F. Simmons: Differential Equations ... (previous) ... (next): $1$: The Nature of Differential Equations: $\S 6$: The Brachistochrone. Fermat and the Bernoullis
  • 1992: George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {A}.13$: Fermat ($\text {1601}$ – $\text {1665}$)
  • 1992: George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {B}.22$: Bernoulli's Solution of the Brachistochrone Problem
  • 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Snell, Willebrord van Royen (1591-1626)
  • 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Snell, Willebrord van Royen (1591-1626)
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