| RefNo | MS/242/26 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Augustin Jean Fresnel to Thomas Young, dated at Paris |
| Date | 27 March 1823 |
| Description | Addressed to Young in Wellbeck Street.
Sending seven copies of a treatise on theoretical and experimental researches on polarised light as modified through total reflexion in translucid bodies. One copy for Young; another for the Royal Society; [William] Hyde Wollaston; [John] Dalton; [John] Herschel; [David] Brewster; [John] Leslie. Brewster may be surprised by the fact that Fresnel doesn't cite his previous work on total reflexion, it is due to the short format of the publication and to the fact that Fresnel thinks Brewster is completely wrong in his conclusions on the coloration of polarised light. Explains Brewster's errors in the Philosophical Transactions, which is the only article Fresnel is aware of on the topic by Brewster.
As a postscriptum asks if Young received his letter and treatise on double refraction using rock crystal sent through the French Embassy. |
| Language | French |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1815.0010 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7947 | Young; Thomas (1773 - 1829); physician, physicist and Egyptologist | 1773 - 1829 |
| NA7031 | Fresnel; Augustin Jean (1788 - 1827) | 1788 - 1827 |