Francesco Maria Grimaldi, né le 2 avril 1618 à Bologne et mort le 28 décembre 1663 à Bologne, est un prêtre jésuite italien, physicien et astronome. Son nom est attaché à la première étude scientifique de la diffraction de la lumière, phénomène dont il créa le nom. Wikipedia
“La lumière se propage et se transmet non seulement directement, par réfraction et réflexion, mais aussi par un quatrième mode, la diffraction.”
Lumen propagatur seu diffunditur non solum Directe, Refracte, ac Reflexe, sed etiam alio quodam quarto modo, Diffracte.
“Light propagates and spreads not only directly, through refraction, and reflection, but also by a fourth mode, diffraction.”
Lumen propagatur seu diffunditur non solum Directe, Refracte, ac Reflexe, sed etiam alio quodam quarto modo, Diffracte.
Physico-mathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride, aliisque adnexis libri duo: opus posthumum, published in Bologna (1665), http://books.google.com/books?id=FzYVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPP27,M1 Proposition I.
“Occasionally, light added to itself may give obscure surfaces on a body that has already received light.”
Lumen aliquando per sui communicationem reddit obscuriorem superficiem corporis aliunde, ac prius illustratam.
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), http://books.google.com/books?id=O4uLUvHTKGsC&pg=PA668 p. 668.
First account of an interference effect in Physico-mathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride, aliisque adnexis libri duo: opus posthumum, published in Bologna (1665), http://books.google.com/books?id=FzYVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPP28,M1 Proposition XXII.
