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An Observation of the Interference of Light of Higher Orders in 1646 and its Response

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DURING 1599–1660 there lived, in Bohemia, Balthasar Conrad, a professor in the Universities of Prague and Olomouc. Under his leadership several candidates defended their theses on diverse physical subjects.

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MAREK, J. An Observation of the Interference of Light of Higher Orders in 1646 and its Response. Nature 201, 110 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201110a0

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