📚 Refraction

Books with refraction on their catalogue record, first published between 1637 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 21 works carrying the subject refraction in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,529 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Discours de la méthode	René Descartes	1644	163
	Traité de la lumière	Christiaan Huygens	1690	21
	Discours de la methode	René Descartes	1637	17
	Duke-Elder's Practice of refraction	Stewart Duke-Elder	1928	16
	Six lectures on light	John Tyndall	1873	7
	Dioptrische Untersuchungen	Carl Friedrich Gauss	1841	3
	Die lichtbrechung in gasen als physikalisches und chemisches problem	Stanislaw Loria	1914	3
	Ophthalmoscopy, retinoscopy and refraction	William Albert Fisher	1922	3
	Grimaldi e la rifrazione	oberto Savelli	—	3
	On the refractive and dispersive power of different species of glass, in reference to the improvement of achromatic telescopes	Joseph von Fraunhofer	1823	2
	Über die Abbildung der fünf platonischen Körper in centrierten systemen sphärischer Flächen	Emil Möhring	1898	2
	The principles of refraction in the human eye	Swan M. Burnett	1904	2
	Refraction and its components in twins	Arnold Sorsby	1962	2
	An experimental determination of refraction over an icefield	Peter Vincent Angus-Leppan	1968	2
	Physics of Negative Refraction and Negative Index Materials	Clifford M. Krowne	2007	2
	On astronomic, photogrammetric and trigonometric refraction	Axel Leijonhufvud	1950	1
	Microwave refractive index structure function profiles (CN2) measured from a small aircraft	James F. Morrissey	1987	1
	Refractometry	Maksymilian Pluta	1995	1
	Borish's Clinical Refraction	Richard Lampert	1998	1
	Borish's clinical refraction	William J. Benjamin	2006	1
	Geometrical Optics	George Asimellis	2021	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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