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Modèle en bois illustrant l'évolution d'un front d'ondes, réalisé par Joseph Caron

Wooden model illustrating the evolution of a wavefront, created by Joseph Caron, professor of descriptive geometry at the École normale supérieure (ENS), in February 1914. It forms part of a collection of mathematical objects at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP).

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