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Schlieren experiment 300 years ago

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Schlieren techniques for making visible density gradients in transparent media seem to be older than had been supposed. Robert Hooke developed a method of this kind as early as 1672 but, unlike Christian Huygens, who described a similar technique in 1685, obviously aroused no interest.

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Rienitz, J. Schlieren experiment 300 years ago. Nature 254, 293–295 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/254293a0

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