| RefNo | MS/242/52 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from William Hyde Wollaston to Thomas Young |
| Date | nd |
| Description | States that he cannot without an egregious share of 'mauvais houte' object to Young's asserting Wollaston's claims to originality in the verifiction of the Hipygenian [?] Law but he must object to Young's burying his own claims to an original investigation in a shroud of anonymous criticism.
States that for this Laplace may be answered with most effect in this country by such a critique , the filius reminis which follow in its suite may be long before it receives the respect due to Young's legitimate offspring.
Surely this might be publicised first not by X.Y. but by T. Y. pro bono publico and then Laplace might be attacked with at least as good effect with the same weapons.
States it is very possible that Malus may have improved upon Wollaston's experiments and may have given Laplace results that have greater pretensions to accuracy than Wollaston, but he is probably not so correct in angle of the crystal; if he declines adopting Wollaston's measures and if Malus suppresses the real origin of his experiments Laplace's silence is more excusable. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7947 | Young; Thomas (1773 - 1829); physician, physicist and Egyptologist | 1773 - 1829 |