via Open Library + Wikidata
5 total works indexed
· 2011 · cited 215x
· 2012 · cited 104x
· 2015 · cited 103x
Willebrord Snellius (born Willebrord Snel van Royen, also Willebrord van Roijen Snell (13 June 1580 – 30 October 1626), commonly known simply as Snellius and Snell, was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician.
Snell is best known for discovering the law of refraction of light, now known as Snell's law, his pioneering work in survey known as Snellius's triangulation, and the Snellius–Pothenot problem, a means in planar trigonometry of finding an unknown point from known ones.
· 2013 · cited 78x
via Crossref · CC0
via Wikipedia infobox
via Wikidata · CC0
via Wikidata · CC0
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).