| RefNo | MS/242/43 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Simeon Denis Poisson to Thomas Young, dated at Paris |
| Date | 12 November 1828 |
| Description | Sends 5 copies of a paper on elastic bodies and fluid flows via the booksellers Payne and Voss [Clarification: this paper contains the first proof of the divergence theorem]. 1 copy should be presented to the Royal Society, another for Young and names of the intended recipients are inscribed on the title page. Comments on how he arrived to the formulations in the paper.
In postscriptum, notes that diamonds the size of a grain of oat and with three faces were presented at the latest séance de l'Académie des sciences that [Jean Dominique] Arago can use to verify the angle of polarization. |
| Language | French |
| Extent | 4p |
| 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 |