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When Huygens and Mariotte agree

Walter Tape

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Abstract

Edme Mariotte in the seventeenth century attributed halos to tiny ice prisms in the atmosphere. Christiaan Huygens attributed them to tiny spheres or cylinders. The two seemingly incompatible theories largely agree in their predictions for the common halos. This article explains why.

© 2008 Optical Society of America

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