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'''Huygens principle of double refraction''', named after [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[physicist]] [[Christiaan Huygens]], explains the phenomenon of [[Birefr ...ion of light [[Polarization (physics)|polarization]] began during the 17th century. In 1669, [[Rasmus Bartholin]] made an observation of double refraction in ...

...a]], one of the first known specimens of [[Homo erectus]]. Its discoverer, Dutch paleontologist [[Eugène Dubois]], gave it the scientific name '''Pithecanth ...ap of 1592. It is also shown on his smaller world map of 1594 and on early Dutch celestial globes. ...

...quation was proposed by [[Svante Arrhenius]] in 1889, based on the work of Dutch chemist [[Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff]] who had noted in 1884 that [[Van ' ...1=Beer |first1=F. |last2=Johnston |first2=E.R. |title=Vector mechanics for engineers: statics |publisher=McGraw Hill |year=1984 |pages=62–76}}</ref> The most co ...