Experimentum Crucis de Óptica Física en la Enseñanza Secundaria.

Resumen

In this paper we defend the use, at a high school level, of the Experimentum Crucis in Physical Optics as a didactic resource that can help in the understanding of the basic principles of this field.We also support that an historical perspective of the social context and of the new paradigms that these experiments brought with them, contributes to perceive the science as a cultural phenomenom born from the neccessities and the leissure of the society that creates it. In order to exemplify the viability of this proposal we describe a collection of these experiments realized in a high school laboratory, with the help of the original old texts, and,some of them,with an original set-up