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Refracted Light, Arcs and Rainbows – Over SF

Jul 12th, 2009 | By ingrid
Refracted Light, Arcs and Rainbows – Over SF

I’m not a big fan of Descartes. In spite of his genius and complexity, he held callously mechanistic views toward nature and non-human animals. And women, too, depending on his mood.
But I’ll give him some love for this explanation of rainbows I recently read at the UCAR website. He simplified the study of a rainbow
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