Francesco Maria Grimaldi war ein italienischer Jesuit, Physiker, Mathematiker und Astronom.
Grimaldi trat 1632 dem Jesuitenorden bei, promovierte 1647 in Theologie und wurde 1651 zum Priester geweiht. Er lehrte am Jesuitenkolleg in Bologna. Wikipedia
“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.
Physico-mathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride, aliisque adnexis libri duo: opus posthumum, published in Bologna (1665), http://books.google.com/books?id=FzYVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPP27,M1 Proposition I.
“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.
also translated as "A body actually enlightened may become obscure by adding new light to that which it has already received." in The Penny cyclopaedia (1845), http://books.google.com/books?id=O4uLUvHTKGsC&pg=PA668 p. 668.
First account of an interference effect in Physico-mathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride, aliisque adnexis libri duo: opus posthumum, published in Bologna (1665), http://books.google.com/books?id=FzYVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPP28,M1 Proposition XXII.
