DIFFRACTION
, a term first used by Grimaldi, to denote that property of the rays of light, which others have called Inflection; the discovery of which is attributed by some to Grimaldi, and by others to Dr. Hook.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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