THE POINCARÉ SPHERE

POINCARÉ, HENRI.

Sur la Polarisation par Diffraction. (Premier-Secon partie). 2 vols.

(Berlin, Uppsala & Stockholm, Paris, 1892 a. 1897. 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler.", Bd. 16 and 20, pp. 297-339 and pp. 313-355.

First edition of these importent papers on the polarization of light. The geometrical representation of different states of polarization by points on a sphere are due to Poincare. The method shown to visualize the different states of polarization is given in these two papers and the method is called Poincare's Sphere.

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