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Italian physicist (1618–1663)

Francesco Maria Grimaldi (April 2, 1618 – December 28, 1663) was an Italian mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna. He was the first to make accurate observations on the diffraction of light.

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Alternative Names: Francesco Maria Grimaldi, SJ

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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.

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.