Correspondence of Thomas Young FRS Collected letters from contemporaries, largely continental scientists of distinction met while Young was Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, or in Paris discussing primarily optics; with side notes on hieroglyphs. Includes letters by Jean Francois Dominique Arago (14 letters); Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1 letter); Jöns Jacob Berzelius (3 letters); Jean-Baptiste Biot (2 letters) and his wife Francoise Gabrielle Biot (1 letter); Etienne-Louis Malus (1 letter); Augustin Jean Fresnel (9 letters); Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (7 letters); Pierre Simon de Laplace (1 letter); Simeon Denis Poisson (2 letters); William Hyde Wollaston (9 letters). Also includes a draft paper on polarisation of light and the history of the discovery by Fresnel and Arago intended for publication in the Encyclopedia Britannica (1824). 1800-1828