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RefNoMS/242/26
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Augustin Jean Fresnel to Thomas Young, dated at Paris
Date27 March 1823
DescriptionAddressed 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.
LanguageFrench
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionPaper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1815.0010
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7947Young; Thomas (1773 - 1829); physician, physicist and Egyptologist1773 - 1829
NA7031Fresnel; Augustin Jean (1788 - 1827)1788 - 1827
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