De kleurenleer van de aanhangers der corpusculairtheorie

Abstract

SUMMARY: In this essay we treated the colourtheory of the adherents of corpuscularphilosophy. We began with Lucretius, we continued with David van Goorle, Francis Bacon, Basso Isaac Beeckman, Mersenne. Descartes and his followers, Sennert, Gassend. Attention is paid to Bouillaud, who did not belong to the group mentioned above. Our discourse shows, that Beeckman exerted a great influence on Mersenne, Descartes and Gassend. Beeckman was the first, who rejected the speciestheory of the Scholastics. Gassend accentuated the idea, that the colour of light is white.