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The Battle for Light: Fermat vs. Descartes: A Sourcebook on Pierre de Fermat’s Principle of Least Time Michelle Marcotte and the first known syphonIn an era dominated by Cartesian orthodoxy, Pierre de Fermat proposed a revolutionary principle: light takes the path of least time. This groundbreaking idea transformed the study of optics and forever altered our understanding of the physical world. Fermats insights into the principle of least time foreshadowed the variational calculus and the fundamental physical concept of least action. Fermats bold assertion, made in defiance of Ren Descartes,