FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN. - ON THE REFRACTION OF LIGHT.

Explication de la Réfraction dans le système des ondes. (+) Sur l'Ascension des nuages dans l'atmosphere.

Paris, Crochard, 1819. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Stamps to verso of titlepage. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", Tome XXI, 2. Series. 448 pp. a. 1 engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Fresnel's papers. pp. 225-241, textillustr. and pp. 260-263. Clean and fine.

Both papers first appearances. Fresnel explains the phenomena of refraction and the refraction law in terms of his new undulatory theory of light and his postulate of the transversal motion of light.

Also with Lagrange paper "Surla Théorie de la lumière d'Huygens", pp. 241-246.

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