text: In 1905, in an article entitled "Radiation through a foggy atmosphere", Arthur Schuster published a solution to the equation of radiative transfer, which describes the propagation of radiation through a medium, affected by absorption, emission, and scattering processes. His mathematics used a two flux approximation; i.e., all light is assumed to travel with a component either in the same direction as the incident beam, or in the opposite direction. He used the word scattering rather than reflection, and considered scatter to be in all directions.  He used the symbols k and s for absorption and isotropic scattering coefficients, and repeatedly refers to radiation entering a "layer", which ranges in size from infinitesimal to infinitely thick.  In his treatment, the radiation enters the layers at all possible angles, referred to as "diffuse illumination".