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Francesco Maria Grimaldi

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Lumen aliquando per sui communicationem reddit obscuriorem superficiem corporis aliunde, ac prius illustratam.
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Occasionally, light added to itself may give obscure surfaces on a body that has already received light.
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also translated as "A body actually enlightened may become obscure by adding new light to that which it has already received." in The Penny cyclopaedia (1845), [p. 668].
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First account of an interference effect in Physico-mathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride, aliisque adnexis libri duo: opus posthumum, published in Bologna (1665), [Proposition XXII].

 
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