An Early Experimental Determination of Snell's Law

John W. Shirley

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The law of refraction known by the name of Snell's law was circulated in manuscript by him as early as 1621. This paper shows that the law of sines was experimentally discovered independently in England by Thomas Hariot and his friends, and was used by them several years before 1621.

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