1994:" ("Nature simple and fertile"), Fresnel slightly expanded the two tables without changing the existing figures, except for a correction to the first minimum of intensity. For completeness, he repeated his solution to "the problem of interference", whereby sinusoidal functions are added like vectors. He acknowledged the directionality of the secondary sources and the variation in their distances from the observation point, chiefly to explain why these things make negligible difference in the context, provided of course that the secondary sources do not radiate in the retrograde direction. Then, applying his theory of interference to the secondary waves, he expressed the intensity of light diffracted by a single straight edge (half-plane) in terms of integrals which involved the dimensions of the problem, but which could be converted to the normalized forms above. With reference to the integrals, he explained the calculation of the maxima and minima of the intensity (external fringes), and noted that the calculated intensity falls very rapidly as one moves into the geometric shadow. The last result, as Olivier Darrigol says, "amounts to a proof of the rectilinear propagation of light in the wave theory, indeed the first proof that a modern physicist would still accept."
1064:—the blurring and fringing of shadows where, according to rectilinear propagation, they ought to be sharp. Newton, who called diffraction "inflexion", supposed that rays of light passing close to obstacles were bent ("inflected"); but his explanation was only qualitative. Huygens's common-tangent construction, without modifications, could not accommodate diffraction at all. Two such modifications were proposed by Young in the same 1801 Bakerian Lecture: first, that the secondary waves near the edge of an obstacle could diverge into the shadow, but only weakly, due to limited reinforcement from other secondary waves; and second, that diffraction by an edge was caused by interference between two rays: one reflected off the edge, and the other inflected while passing near the edge. The latter ray would be undeviated if sufficiently far from the edge, but Young did not elaborate on that case. These were the earliest suggestions that the degree of diffraction depends on wavelength. Later, in the 1803 Bakerian Lecture, Young ceased to regard inflection as a separate phenomenon, and produced evidence that diffraction fringes
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overwhelmingly regarded as unconvincing. The corpuscular theory could not rigorously link double refraction to surface forces; the wave theory could not yet link it to polarization. The corpuscular theory was weak on thin plates and silent on gratings; the wave theory was strong on both, but under-appreciated. Concerning diffraction, the corpuscular theory did not yield quantitative predictions, while the wave theory had begun to do so by considering diffraction as a manifestation of interference, but had only considered two rays at a time. Only the corpuscular theory gave even a vague insight into
Brewster's angle, Malus's law, or optical rotation. Concerning chromatic polarization, the wave theory explained the periodicity far better than the corpuscular theory, but had nothing to say about the role of polarization; and its explanation of the periodicity was largely ignored. And Arago had founded the study of chromatic polarization, only to lose the lead, controversially, to Biot. Such were the circumstances in which Arago first heard of Fresnel's interest in optics.
4992:. Acknowledging Fresnel's influence, Cauchy went on to develop the first rigorous theory of elasticity of non-isotropic solids (1827), hence the first rigorous theory of transverse waves therein (1830)—which he promptly tried to apply to optics. The ensuing difficulties drove a long competitive effort to find an accurate mechanical model of the aether. Fresnel's own model was not dynamically rigorous; for example, it deduced the reaction to a shear strain by considering the displacement of one particle while all others were fixed, and it assumed that the stiffness determined the wave velocity as in a stretched string, whatever the direction of the wave-normal. But it was enough to enable the wave theory to do what selectionist theory could not: generate testable formulae covering a comprehensive range of optical phenomena, from
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changed as abruptly as Biot claimed, and whether the human eye could judge color with sufficient objectivity for the purpose. On the latter question, Fresnel pointed out that different observers may give different names to the same color. Furthermore, he said, a single observer can only compare colors side by side; and even if they are judged to be the same, the identity is of sensation, not necessarily of composition. Fresnel's oldest and strongest point—that thin crystals were subject to the same laws as thick ones and did not need or allow a separate theory—Biot left unanswered. Arago and
Fresnel were seen to have won the debate.
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2089:. Arago even encouraged that interpretation, presumably in order to minimize resistance to Fresnel's ideas. Even Biot began teaching the Huygens-Fresnel principle without committing himself to a wave basis. Third, Fresnel's theory did not adequately explain the mechanism of generation of secondary waves or why they had any significant angular spread; this issue particularly bothered Poisson. Fourth, the question that most exercised optical physicists at that time was not diffraction, but polarization—on which Fresnel had been working, but was yet to make his critical breakthrough.
2156:(second polarizer), their polarizations were brought into alignment (with intensities again modified according to Malus's law), and they would interfere. This explanation, by itself, predicts that if the analyzer is rotated 90°, the ordinary and extraordinary waves simply switch roles, so that if the analyzer takes the form of a calcite crystal, the two images of the lamina should be of the same hue (this issue is revisited below). But in fact, as Arago and Biot had found, they are of complementary colors. To correct the prediction, Fresnel proposed a phase-inversion rule whereby
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1407:; and he noted that the predicted paths of the fringes were hyperbolic. In the part of the memoir that most clearly surpassed Young, Fresnel explained the ordinary laws of reflection and refraction in terms of interference, noting that if two parallel rays were reflected or refracted at other than the prescribed angle, they would no longer have the same phase in a common perpendicular plane, and every vibration would be cancelled by a nearby vibration. He noted that his explanation was valid provided that the surface irregularities were much smaller than the wavelength.
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the fringes for diffraction by a half-plane, a slit, and a narrow strip—concentrating on the minima, which were visually sharper than the maxima. For the slit and the strip, he could not use the previously computed table of maxima and minima; for each combination of dimensions, the intensity had to be expressed in terms of sums or differences of
Fresnel integrals and calculated from the table of integrals, and the extrema had to be calculated anew. The agreement between calculation and measurement was better than 1.5% in almost every case.
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Fresnel rhomb (still in the form of "coupled prisms"), followed by an ordinary birefringent lamina sliced parallel to its axis, with the axis at 45° to the plane of reflection of the Fresnel rhomb, followed by a second Fresnel rhomb at 90° to the first. In a further memoir read on 30 March, Fresnel reported that if polarized light was fully "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb—now described as a parallelepiped—its properties were not further modified by a subsequent passage through an optically rotating medium or device.
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868:) of the secondary wavefronts emitted from the earlier position. As the extent of the common tangent was limited by the extent of the initial wavefront, the repeated application of Huygens's construction to a plane wavefront of limited extent (in a uniform medium) gave a straight, parallel beam. While this construction indeed predicted rectilinear propagation, it was difficult to reconcile with the common observation that wavefronts on the surface of water can bend around obstructions, and with the similar behavior of
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noting that he would need to incur some expense in order to improve his measurements, he wanted to know "whether this is not useless, and whether the law of diffraction has not already been established by sufficiently exact experiments." He explained that he had not yet had a chance to acquire the items on his reading lists, with the apparent exception of "Young's book", which he could not understand without his brother's help. Not surprisingly, he had retraced many of Young's steps.
5150:. The implication was clear: given that the behavior of light had not been satisfactorily explained except by transverse waves, it was not the responsibility of the wave-theorists to abandon transverse waves in deference to pre-conceived notions about the aether; rather, it was the responsibility of the aether modelers to produce a model that accommodated transverse waves. According to Robert H. Silliman, Poisson eventually accepted the wave theory shortly before his death in 1840.
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extraordinary ray emerging from the first suffers only the extraordinary refraction in the second; but when the second crystal is rotated 90° about the incident rays, the roles are interchanged, so that the ordinary ray emerging from the first crystal suffers only the extraordinary refraction in the second, and vice versa. This discovery gave Newton another reason to reject the wave theory: rays of light evidently had "sides". Corpuscles could have sides (or
618:, as company for Louis. But Augustin lifted his performance: in late 1804 he was accepted into the École Polytechnique, being placed 17th in the entrance examination. As the detailed records of the École Polytechnique begin in 1808, we know little of Augustin's time there, except that he made few if any friends and—in spite of continuing poor health—excelled in drawing and geometry: in his first year he took a prize for his solution to a geometry problem posed by
7235:, 1911; Buchwald, 1989, p. 111; Levitt, 2013, p. 24; etc.). But the reprint of the elegy at the end of Fresnel's collected works bears a footnote, presumably by Léonor Fresnel, saying that "eight" should be "five or six", and regretting "the haste with which we had to collect the notes that were belatedly requested for the biographical part of this speech" (Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 3, p. 477n). Silliman (1967, p. 9n) accepts the correction.
4027:. Biot, assuming that the concentric pattern was the general case, tried to calculate the colors with his theory of chromatic polarization, and succeeded better for some minerals than for others. In 1818, Brewster belatedly explained why: seven of the twelve minerals employed by Biot had the lemniscate pattern, which Brewster had observed as early as 1812; and the minerals with the more complicated rings also had a more complicated law of refraction.
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5256:, first published in 1837. In the corpuscular system, "every new class of facts requires a new supposition," whereas in the wave system, a hypothesis devised in order to explain one phenomenon is then found to explain or predict others. In the corpuscular system there is "no unexpected success, no happy coincidence, no convergence of principles from remote quarters"; but in the wave system, "all tends to unity and simplicity."
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he thought, would behave as a solid for sufficiently small deformations, but as a perfect liquid for larger deformations. Concerning the lack of longitudinal waves, he further suggested that the layers offered incomparably greater resistance to a change of spacing than to a sliding motion (Silliman, 1967, pp. 216–218; Fresnel, 1821a, §§ 11–12; cf. Fresnel, 1827, tr. Hobson, pp. 258–262).
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3859:. Hence it was thought that the degree of polarization was the degree to which the light could be suppressed by an analyzer with the appropriate orientation. Light that had been converted from linear to elliptical or circular polarization (e.g., by passage through a crystal lamina, or by total internal reflection) was described as partly or fully "depolarized" because of its behavior in an analyzer.
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images, which would seem unpolarized when viewed through an analyzer but, when viewed through a
Fresnel rhomb, would be polarized at ±45° to the plane of reflection of the rhomb (indicating that they were initially circularly polarized in opposite directions). This would show directly that optical rotation is a form of birefringence. In the memoir of December 1822, in which he introduced the term
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supposing that his corpuscles had the wavelike property of alternating between "fits of easy transmission" and "fits of easy reflection", the distance between like "fits" depending on the color and the medium and, awkwardly, on the angle of refraction or reflection into that medium. More awkwardly still, this theory required thin plates to reflect only at the back surface, although
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4935:, confirming the existence of three mutually perpendicular axes on which the displacement produced a parallel force. Later in the document, he noted that in a biaxial crystal, unlike a uniaxial crystal, the directions in which there is only one wave-normal velocity are not the same as those in which there is only one ray velocity. Nowadays we refer to the former directions as the
5183:, addressed three questions to Fresnel concerning double refraction, partial reflection, and their relation to polarization. The resulting article, titled simply "Light", was highly sympathetic to the wave theory, although not entirely free of selectionist language. It was circulating privately by 1828 and was published in 1830. Meanwhile, Young's translation of Fresnel's
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Poisson to the wave theory, for at least four reasons. First, although the professionalization of science in France had established common standards, it was one thing to acknowledge a piece of research as meeting those standards, and another thing to regard it as conclusive. Second, it was possible to interpret Fresnel's integrals as rules for combining
1583:, such that the secondary waves from each zone were spread over half a cycle when they arrived at the observation point. The zones on one side of the obstacle largely canceled out in pairs, except the first zone, which was represented by an "efficacious ray". This approach worked for the internal fringes, but the superposition of the efficacious ray and the direct ray did
5440:, becoming the first member of that body to draw a salary, albeit in the concurrent role of Engineer-in-Chief. He was also an examiner (not a teacher) at the École Polytechnique since 1821; but poor health, long hours during the examination season, and anxiety about judging others induced him to resign that post in late 1824, to save his energy for his lighthouse work.
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related phenomena of double refraction and partial reflection involved altering the orientations of the rays and/or selecting them according to orientation, and the state of polarization of a beam (a bundle of rays) was a question of how many rays were in what orientations: in a fully polarized beam, the orientations were all the same. This approach, which
5696:. The memoirs on circular and elliptical polarization and optical rotation, and on the detailed derivation of the Fresnel equations and their application to total internal reflection, date from this period. In the spring he recovered enough, in his own view, to supervise the lens installation at Cordouan. Soon afterwards, it became clear that his condition was
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demonstration of this result as being contained in a note appended to his "second memoir" on double refraction. No such note appeared in print, and the relevant manuscripts found after his death showed only that, around 1824, he was comparing refractive indices (measured by
Fraunhofer) with a theoretical formula, the meaning of which was not fully explained.
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5592:. As early as May 1817, at Arago's suggestion, Fresnel applied for membership of the Académie des Sciences, but received only one vote. The successful candidate on that occasion was Joseph Fourier. In November 1822, Fourier's elevation to Permanent Secretary of the Académie created a vacancy in the physics section, which was filled in February 1823 by
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Commission that Fresnel was asked for a full eight-panel version. This model, completed a year later in spite of insufficient funding, had panels 76 cm square. In a public spectacle on the evening of 13 April 1821, it was demonstrated by comparison with the most recent reflectors, which it suddenly rendered obsolete.
5455:) rings above and below the refracting (dioptric) parts, the entire apparatus would look like a beehive. The second Fresnel lens to enter service was indeed a fixed lens, of third order, installed at Dunkirk by 1 February 1825. However, due to the difficulty of fabricating large toroidal prisms, this apparatus had a 16-sided polygonal plan.
2027:(uncommitted), and Arago, who eventually wrote the committee's report. Although entries in the competition were supposed to be anonymous to the judges, Fresnel's must have been recognizable by the content. There was only one other entry, of which neither the manuscript nor any record of the author has survived. That entry (identified as "no.
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including pp. 452 (rediscovery of depolarization by total internal reflection), 455 (two reflections, "coupled prisms", "parallelepiped in glass"), 467–8 (phase difference per reflection); see also p. 487, note 1 (date of reading). Kipnis (1991, p. 217n) confirms the reading and adds that the paper was published in 1821.
1106:'s "least action" principle. But, as Young pointed out, the existence of such a velocity law was guaranteed by Huygens's spheroid, because Huygens's construction leads to Fermat's principle, which becomes Maupertuis's principle if the ray speed is replaced by the reciprocal of the particle speed! The corpuscularists had not found a
3348:-uniformity in the distribution. Two pages later he noted, apparently for the first time in writing, that his phase-inversion rule and the non-interference of orthogonally-polarized beams would be easily explained if the vibrations of fully polarized waves were "perpendicular to the normal to the wave"—that is, purely transverse.
3304:. But Fresnel could not develop either of these ideas into a comprehensive theory. As early as September 1816, according to his later account, he realized that the non-interference of orthogonally-polarized beams, together with the phase-inversion rule in chromatic polarization, would be most easily explained if the waves were
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polarization and the resolution of forces in a plane, mentioning transverse waves only in a footnote. The introduction of transverse waves into the main argument was delayed to the second installment, in which he revealed the suspicion that he and Ampère had harbored since 1816, and the difficulty it raised. He continued:
3954:" gave a phase difference of 1/4 of a cycle (90°). These findings were contained in a memoir submitted to the Académie on 10 November 1817 and read a fortnight later. An undated marginal note indicates that the two coupled prisms were later replaced by a single "parallelepiped in glass"—now known as a
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Fresnel, dated 29 August 1819 (Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 3, pp. 15–21), concerns tests on reflectors, and does not mention stepped lenses except in an unrelated sketch on the last page of the manuscript. The minutes of the meetings of the Commission go back only to 1824, when
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Fresnel's "second memoir" on double refraction was not printed until late 1827, a few months after his death. Until then, the best published source on his work on double refraction was an extract of that memoir, printed in 1822. His final treatment of partial reflection and total internal reflection,
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was the angle between the ray and the optic axis. By Malus's definition, the plane of polarization of a ray was the plane of the ray and the optic axis if the ray was ordinary, or the perpendicular plane (containing the ray) if the ray was extraordinary. In
Fresnel's model, the direction of vibration
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waves, that the density of the aether in a refractive medium was inversely proportional to the square of the wave velocity, and therefore directly proportional to the square of the refractive index. For reflection and refraction at the surface between two isotropic media of different indices, Fresnel
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Accordingly, in the same memoir, Fresnel offered his first attempt at a wave theory of chromatic polarization. When polarized light passed through a crystal lamina, it was split into ordinary and extraordinary waves (with intensities described by Malus's law), and these were perpendicularly polarized
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were empirically wrong because when Fresnel's intensities of spectral colors were mixed according to Newton's rules, the squared cosine and sine functions varied too smoothly to account for the observed sequence of colors. That claim drew a written reply from Fresnel, who disputed whether the colors
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The theory of Fresnel to which I now proceed,—and which not only embraces all the known phenomena, but has even outstripped observation, and predicted consequences which were afterwards fully verified,—will, I am persuaded, be regarded as the finest generalization in physical science which has been
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for a wavefront in that plane, together with their vibration directions. For the biaxial case, he generalized the equation to obtain a surface with three unequal principal dimensions; this he subsequently called the "surface of elasticity". But he retained the earlier ellipsoid as an approximation,
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of the two images suffered an additional 180° phase shift on its way through the lamina. This inversion was a weakness in the theory relative to Biot's, as Fresnel acknowledged, although the rule specified which of the two images had the inverted wave. Moreover, Fresnel could deal only with special
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west of Paris. There his mother joined him. On 6 July, Arago arrived to deliver the Rumford Medal. Sensing Arago's distress, Fresnel whispered that "the most beautiful crown means little, when it is laid on the grave of a friend." Fresnel did not have the strength to reply to the Royal Society. He
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theory of chromatic polarization, he found that the apparently depolarized light was a mixture of components polarized parallel and perpendicular to the plane of incidence, and that the total reflection introduced a phase difference between them. Choosing an appropriate angle of incidence (not yet
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nm, which he deduced from the diffraction pattern in the simple case in which light incident on a single slit was focused by a cylindrical lens. For a variety of distances from the source to the obstacle and from the obstacle to the field point, he compared the calculated and observed positions of
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canceled, for reasons involving the dynamics of the medium: where the wavefront was continuous, symmetry forbade oblique vibrations; but near the obstacle that truncated the wavefront, the asymmetry allowed some sideways vibration towards the geometric shadow. This argument showed that Fresnel had
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The story that Ampère lost the essay (propagated from Boutry, 1948, p. 593?) is implicitly contradicted by Darrigol (2012, p. 198), Buchwald (1989, p. 117), Mérimée's letter to Fresnel dated 20 December 1814 (in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 830–831), and two footnotes in
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I am far from denying the value that I attach to the praise of English scholars, or pretending that they would not have flattered me agreeably. But for a long time this sensibility, or vanity, which is called the love of glory, has been much blunted in me: I work far less to capture the
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In late 1825, to reduce the loss of light in the reflecting elements, Fresnel proposed to replace each mirror with a catadioptric prism, through which the light would travel by refraction through the first surface, then total internal reflection off the second surface, then refraction through the
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derivation, contained in a "supplement" dated 13 January 1822, assumed that (i) there were three mutually perpendicular directions in which a displacement produced a reaction in the same direction, (ii) the reaction was otherwise a linear function of the displacement, and (iii) the
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generally normal to the ray. This error (which is small if, as in most cases, the birefringence is weak) was corrected in an "extract" that Fresnel read to the Académie a week later, on 26 November. Starting with Huygens's spheroid, Fresnel obtained a 4th-degree surface which, when sectioned by a
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The ellipsoid indeed gave the correct ray velocities (although the initial experimental verification was only approximate). But it did not give the correct directions of vibration, for the biaxial case or even for the uniaxial case, because the vibrations in Fresnel's model were tangential to the
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for other cases in which the two components have a fixed amplitude ratio and a fixed phase difference. He then explained how optical rotation could be understood as a species of birefringence. Linearly-polarized light could be resolved into two circularly-polarized components rotating in opposite
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Arago delayed reporting on Fresnel's works on chromatic polarization until June 1821, when he used them in a broad attack on Biot's theory. In his written response, Biot protested that Arago's attack went beyond the proper scope of a report on the nominated works of Fresnel. But Biot also claimed
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In a memoir drafted on 30 August 1816 and revised on 6 October, Fresnel reported an experiment in which he placed two matching thin laminae in a double-slit apparatus—one over each slit, with their optic axes perpendicular—and obtained two interference patterns offset in opposite directions, with
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The committee deliberated into the new year. Then Poisson, exploiting a case in which Fresnel's theory gave easy integrals, predicted that if a circular obstacle were illuminated by a point-source, there should be (according to the theory) a bright spot in the center of the shadow, illuminated as
1613:(synchronized). In Fresnel's version, the preliminary single slit was retained, and the double slit was replaced by the double mirror—which bore no physical resemblance to the double slit and yet performed the same function. This result (which had been announced by Arago in the March issue of the
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colored bands do not travel in a straight line as one moves away from the opaque body. The results you have achieved in this regard seem to me very important; perhaps they can serve to prove the truth of the undulatory system, so often and so feebly combated by physicists who have not bothered to
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In summary, in the spring of 1814, as Fresnel tried in vain to guess what polarization was, the corpuscularists thought that they knew, while the wave-theorists (if we may use the plural) literally had no idea. Both theories claimed to explain rectilinear propagation, but the wave explanation was
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Early in 1814, reviewing Biot's work on chromatic polarization, Young noted that the periodicity of the color as a function of the plate thickness—including the factor by which the period exceeded that for a reflective thin plate, and even the effect of obliquity of the plate (but not the role of
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lamina in place of the mica, and found empirical formulae for the intensities of the ordinary and extraordinary images. The formulae contained two coefficients, supposedly representing colors of rays "affected" and "unaffected" by the plate—the "affected" rays being of the same color mix as those
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the crystal. Worse, it was doubtful that any such force would satisfy the conditions of Maupertuis's principle. In contrast, Young proceeded to show that "a medium more easily compressible in one direction than in any direction perpendicular to it, as if it consisted of an infinite number of
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A. Fresnel, "Supplément au Mémoire sur les modifications que la réflexion imprime à la lumière polarisée" ("Supplement to the Memoir on the modifications that reflection impresses on polarized light"), signed 15 January 1818, submitted for witnessing 19 January 1818; printed in Fresnel, 1866–70,
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of the Académie des Sciences for 1824; this was not actually printed until late 1827, a few months after his death. In this work, having established the three perpendicular axes on which a displacement produces a parallel reaction, and thence constructed the surface of elasticity, he showed that
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Arago's verification of Poisson's counter-intuitive prediction passed into folklore as if it had decided the prize. That view, however, is not supported by the judges' report, which gave the matter only two sentences in the penultimate paragraph. Neither did Fresnel's triumph immediately convert
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with Fresnel conscientiousness was always the foremost part of his character, and he constantly performed his duties as an engineer with the most rigorous scrupulousness. The mission to defend the revenues of the state, to obtain for them the best employment possible, appeared to his eyes in the
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treated light as a periodic sequence of pulses but did not use frequency as the criterion of color, while Huygens treated the waves as individual pulses without any periodicity; and Pardies died young in 1673. Newton himself tried to explain colors of thin plates using the corpuscular theory, by
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The Fresnel brothers were initially home-schooled by their mother. The sickly Augustin was considered the slow one, not inclined to memorization; but the popular story that he hardly began to read until the age of eight is disputed. At the age of nine or ten he was undistinguished except for his
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and made of multiple prisms for easier construction. With an official budget of 500 francs, Fresnel approached three manufacturers. The third, François Soleil, produced the prototype. Finished in March 1820, it had a square lens panel 55 cm on a side, containing 97 polygonal (not annular)
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Whether Laplace was announcing his conversion to the wave theory—at the age of 73—is uncertain. Grattan-Guinness entertained the idea. Buchwald, noting that Arago failed to explain that the "ellipsoid of elasticity" did not give the correct planes of polarization, suggests that Laplace may have
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for May, June, and July 1821. In the first installment, Fresnel described "direct" (unpolarized) light as "the rapid succession of systems of waves polarized in all directions", and gave what is essentially the modern explanation of chromatic polarization, albeit in terms of the analogy between
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On 24 May 1816, Fresnel wrote to Young (in French), acknowledging how little of his own memoir was new. But in a "supplement" signed on 14 July and read the next day, Fresnel noted that the internal fringes were more accurately predicted by supposing that the two interfering rays came from some
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of his own construction, and supporting apparatus made by a local locksmith—he began his own experiments. His technique was novel: whereas earlier investigators had projected the fringes onto a screen, Fresnel soon abandoned the screen and observed the fringes in space, through a lens with the
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Arago protested, declaring that he had made some of the same discoveries but had not had time to write them up. In fact the overlap between Arago's work and Biot's was minimal, Arago's being only qualitative and wider in scope (attempting to include polarization by reflection). But the dispute
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Huygens, in his investigation of double refraction, noticed something that he could not explain: when light passes through two similarly oriented calcite crystals at normal incidence, the ordinary ray emerging from the first crystal suffers only the ordinary refraction in the second, while the
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A. Fresnel, "Mémoire sur les modifications que la réflexion imprime à la lumière polarisée" ("Memoir on the modifications that reflection impresses on polarized light"), signed & submitted 10 November 1817, read 24 November 1817; printed in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 441–485,
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Newton (1730) observed feathers acting as reflection gratings and as a transmission gratings, but classified the former case under thin plates (p. 252), and the latter, more vaguely, under inflection (p. 322). In retrospect, the latter experiment (p. 322, end of Obs. 2) is
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a macroscopic current had the counterfactual implication that a permanent magnet should be hot, whereas microscopic currents circulating around the molecules might avoid the heating mechanism. He was not to know that the fundamental units of permanent magnetism are even smaller than molecules
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Immediately after the reading of the report, Laplace took the floor, and… proclaimed the exceptional importance of the work which had just been reported: he congratulated the author on his steadfastness and his sagacity which had led him to discover a law which had escaped the cleverest, and,
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Frankel (1974) and Young (1855, pp. 225–228) debunk Laplace's claim to have established the existence of such a force. Fresnel (1827, tr. Hobson, pp. 239–241) more comprehensively addresses the mechanical difficulties of this claim. Admittedly, the particular statement that he
6305:. But photons did not exactly correspond to Newton's corpuscles; for example, Newton's explanation of ordinary refraction required the corpuscles to travel faster in media of higher refractive index, which photons do not. Neither did photons displace waves; rather, they led to the paradox of
5848:, was received by the publisher's agent in Paris in September 1824. The journal failed before Fresnel's contribution could be published. Fresnel tried unsuccessfully to recover the manuscript. The editors of his collected works were unable to find it, and concluded that it was probably lost.
3430:, except that, unlike other elastic solids, it was incapable of transmitting longitudinal waves. The wave theory was cheap on assumptions, but its latest assumption was expensive on credulity. If that assumption was to be widely entertained, its explanatory power would need to be impressive.
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In the same supplement, Fresnel described his well-known double mirror, comprising two flat mirrors joined at an angle of slightly less than 180°, with which he produced a two-slit interference pattern from two virtual images of the same slit. A conventional double-slit experiment required a
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Having presented the pieces of his theory in roughly the order of discovery, Fresnel needed to rearrange the material so as to emphasize the mechanical foundations; and he still needed a rigorous treatment of Biot's dihedral law. He attended to these matters in his "second memoir" on double
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When light passes through a slice of calcite cut perpendicular to its optic axis, the difference between the propagation times of the ordinary and extraordinary waves has a second-order dependence on the angle of incidence. If the slice is observed in a highly convergent cone of light, that
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and in the second supplement to his first memoir on double refraction, suggested that dispersion could be accounted for if the particles of the medium exerted forces on each other over distances that were significant fractions of a wavelength. Later, more than once, Fresnel referred to the
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obtain the usual two-slit interference pattern, even if he compensated for the different propagation times. A more general experiment, suggested by Arago, found that if the two beams of a double-slit device were separately polarized, the interference pattern appeared and disappeared as the
1081:(with vibrations in the direction of propagation). Newton offered an alternative "Rule" for the extraordinary refraction, which rode on his authority through the 18th century, although he made "no known attempt to deduce it from any principles of optics, corpuscular or otherwise."
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Near the end of the memoir, Fresnel summed up the difference between Huygens's use of secondary waves and his own: whereas Huygens says there is light only where the secondary waves exactly agree, Fresnel says there is complete darkness only where the secondary waves exactly cancel out.
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While selectionists could insist on interpreting Fresnel's diffraction integrals in terms of discrete, countable rays, they could not do the same with his theory of polarization. For a selectionist, the state of polarization of a beam concerned the distribution of orientations over the
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public's votes than to obtain an inner approbation which has always been the sweetest reward of my efforts. Doubtless I have often needed the sting of vanity to excite me to pursue my researches in moments of disgust or discouragement; but all the compliments I received from
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In a note that Buchwald dates in the summer of 1818, Fresnel entertained the idea that unpolarized waves could have vibrations of the same energy and obliquity, with their orientations distributed uniformly about the wave-normal, and that the degree of polarization was the degree of
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1") was mentioned only in the last paragraph of the judges' report, noting that the author had shown ignorance of the relevant earlier works of Young and Fresnel, used insufficiently precise methods of observation, overlooked known phenomena, and made obvious errors. In the words of
1624:": crops failed; hungry farming families lined the streets of Rennes; the central government organized "charity workhouses" for the needy; and in October, Fresnel was sent back to Ille-et-Vilaine to supervise charity workers in addition to his regular road crew. According to Arago,
4299:, of the reaction to a unit displacement in that direction. The last assumption recognized the requirement that if a wave was to maintain a fixed direction of propagation and a fixed direction of vibration, the reaction must not be outside the plane of those two directions.
1493:, containing copious data and arguing that the regularity of diffraction fringes, like the regularity of Newton's rings, must be linked to Newton's "fits". But the new link was not rigorous, and Pouillet himself would become a distinguished early adopter of the wave theory.
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to be awarded in 1819. The deadline for entries was set at 1 August 1818 to allow time for replication of experiments. Although the wording of the problem referred to rays and inflection and did not invite wave-based solutions, Arago and Ampère encouraged Fresnel to enter.
5341:(Commission of Lighthouses) on the recommendation of Arago (a member of the Commission since 1813), to review possible improvements in lighthouse illumination. The commission had been established by Napoleon in 1811 and placed under the Corps des Ponts—Fresnel's employer.
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In the same supplement, Fresnel considered how he might find, for the biaxial case, the secondary wavefront that expands from the origin in unit time—that is, the surface that reduces to Huygens's sphere and spheroid in the uniaxial case. He noted that this "wave surface"
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519:"Augustin Fresnel, engineer of Bridges and Roads, member of the Academy of Sciences, creator of lenticular lighthouses, was born in this house on 10 May 1788. The theory of light owes to this emulator of Newton the highest concepts and the most useful applications."
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Kneller, tr. Kettle, 1911, p. 147. Kneller interprets the quote as referring to Augustin; but Verdet (in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. xcviii–xcix), cited by Silliman (1967, p. 8), gives it a different context, referring to Louis's academic
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Among the French, Poisson's reluctance was an exception. According to Eugene Frankel, "in Paris no debate on the issue seems to have taken place after 1825. Indeed, almost the entire generation of physicists and mathematicians who came to maturity in the 1820s—Pouillet,
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polarized and its waves were therefore presumed to be longitudinal, one would need to explain how the longitudinal component of vibration disappeared on polarization, and why it did not reappear when polarized light was reflected or refracted obliquely by a glass plate.
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Knowledge of this method was assumed in a preliminary note on diffraction, dated 19 April 1818 and deposited on 20 April, in which Fresnel outlined the elementary theory of diffraction as found in modern textbooks. He restated Huygens's principle in combination with the
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He solved that problem in a "supplement" signed on 15 January 1818 (mentioned above). In the same document, he accommodated Malus's law by proposing an underlying law: that if polarized light is incident on a birefringent crystal with its optic axis at an angle
6165:. These investigations were enough to show that the wave theory was at least compatible with dispersion; if the model of dispersion was to be accurate over a wider range of frequencies, it needed to be modified so as to take account of resonances within the medium
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In a memoir read in September 1822, Fresnel announced that he had verified Brewster's diagnosis more directly, by compressing a combination of glass prisms so severely that one could actually see a double image through it. In his experiment, Fresnel lined up seven
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In 1815, Brewster reported that colors appear when a slice of isotropic material, placed between crossed polarizers, is mechanically stressed. Brewster himself immediately and correctly attributed this phenomenon to stress-induced birefringence —now known as
860:(1690), explained rectilinear propagation on the assumption that each point crossed by a traveling wavefront becomes the source of a secondary wavefront. Given the initial position of a traveling wavefront, any later position (according to Huygens) was the common
2081:." At the same meeting, after the judgment was delivered, the president of the Académie opened a sealed note accompanying the memoir, revealing the author as Fresnel. The award was announced at the public meeting of the Académie a week later, on 22 March.
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was normal to the plane of polarization. Hence, for the sphere (the ordinary wave), the vibration was along the lines of latitude (continuing the geographic analogy); and for the spheroid (the extraordinary wave), the vibration was along the lines of longitude.
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study of the power and goodness of God. He placed virtue above science and genius. In his last days he prayed for "strength of soul," not against death alone, but against "the interruption of discoveries… of which he hoped to derive useful applications."
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The appreciation of Fresnel's reconstruction of physical optics might be assisted by an overview of the fragmented state in which he found the subject. In this subsection, optical phenomena that were unexplained or whose explanations were disputed are named in
8296:], supports), 6n (locksmith); Buchwald, 1989, pp. 122 (honey drop), 125–126 (micrometer, with diagram); Boutry 1948, p. 595 and Levitt, 2013, p. 40 (locksmith, honey drop, micrometer); Darrigol 2012, pp. 198–199 (locksmith, honey drop).
1476:, head of the Corps des Ponts, suggesting that the progress of science and the prestige of the Corps would be enhanced if Fresnel could come to Paris for a time. He arrived in March 1816, and his leave was subsequently extended through the middle of the year.
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Fresnel's "second supplement" was signed on 31 March 1822 and submitted the next day—less than a year after the publication of his pure-transverse-wave hypothesis, and just less than a year after the demonstration of his prototype eight-panel lighthouse lens
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On 15 January 1818, in a different context (revisited below), Fresnel showed that the addition of sinusoidal functions of the same frequency but different phases is analogous to the addition of forces with different directions. His method was similar to the
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light of a question of honour. The functionary, whatever might be his rank, who submitted to him an ambiguous account, became at once the object of his profound contempt. … Under such circumstances the habitual gentleness of his manners disappeared…
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obstruction, and the external fringes by considering the intersections between direct waves and waves reflected off the nearer edge. For the external fringes, to obtain tolerable agreement with observation, he had to suppose that the reflected wave was
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A. Fresnel, 1815a, Letter to Jean François "Léonor" Mérimée, 10 February 1815 (Smithsonian Dibner Library, MSS 546A), printed in G. Magalhães, "Remarks on a new autograph letter from Augustin Fresnel: Light aberration and wave theory",
3524:: the signed ratio of the reflected amplitude to the incident amplitude. Then, if the plane of polarization of the incident ray was at 45° to the plane of incidence, the tangent of the corresponding angle for the reflected ray was obtainable from the
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Fresnel's letters from later in 1814 reveal his interest in the wave theory, including his awareness that it explained the constancy of the speed of light and was at least compatible with stellar aberration. Eventually he compiled what he called his
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are the propagation speeds in directions normal to the coordinate axes for vibrations along the axes (the ray and wave-normal speeds being the same in those special cases). Later commentators put the equation in the more compact and memorable form
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Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, p. 800n. Although the original publication (Fresnel, 1827) shows the year "1824" in selected page footers, it is known that Fresnel, slowed down by illness, did not finish the memoir until 1826 (Buchwald, 1989,
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of the two reflection coefficients, and this angle could be measured. Fresnel had measured it for a range of angles of incidence, for glass and water, and the agreement between the calculated and measured angles was better than 1.5° in all cases.
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Later that year, Biot tried to explain the observations as an oscillation of the alignment of the "affected" corpuscles at a frequency proportional to that of Newton's "fits", due to forces depending on the alignment. This theory became known as
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Fresnel's health, which had always been poor, deteriorated in the winter of 1822–1823, increasing the urgency of his original research, and (in part) preventing him from contributing an article on polarization and double refraction for the
5483:, Paris. In this case the dioptric prisms (inside the bronze rings) and catadioptric prisms (outside) are arranged to give a purely flashing light with four flashes per rotation. The assembly stands 2.54 metres tall and weighs about 1.5 tonnes.
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Within a century of Fresnel's initial stepped-lens proposal, more than 10,000 lights with Fresnel lenses were protecting lives and property around the world. Concerning the other benefits, the science historian Theresa H. Levitt has remarked:
5661:(on the south-east side, fourth from the left). In the 19th century, as every lighthouse in France acquired a Fresnel lens, every one acquired a bust of Fresnel, seemingly watching over the coastline that he had made safer. The lunar features
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I pray God to give my son the grace to employ the great talents, which he has received, for his own benefit, and for the God of all. Much will be asked from him to whom much has been given, and most will be required of him who has received
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Until Fresnel turned his attention to biaxial birefringence, it was assumed that one of the two refractions was ordinary, even in biaxial crystals. But, in a memoir submitted on 19 November 1821, Fresnel reported two experiments on
11887:, Ser. 2, vol. 17, pp. 393–403 (August 1821); reprinted (with added section nos.) in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 601–608; translated as "Note on the remarks of Mr. Biot relating to colors of thin plates",
5470:, the first order being the largest), with different characteristics to facilitate recognition: a constant light (from a fixed lens), one flash per minute (from a rotating lens with eight panels), and two per minute (sixteen panels).
1227:, with its faces perpendicular to the optic axis (the axis of Huygens's spheroid or Malus's velocity function), produced a similar effect, except that rotating the quartz made no difference. Arago tried to explain his observations in
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A. Fresnel, 1818a, "Mémoire sur les couleurs développées dans les fluides homogènes par la lumière polarisée", read 30 March 1818 (according to Kipnis, 1991, p. 217), published 1846; reprinted in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1,
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described Maxwell's work as "the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton," commentators of the era between Fresnel and Maxwell made similarly strong statements about Fresnel:
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dependence becomes significant, so that a chromatic-polarization experiment will show a pattern of concentric rings. But most minerals, when observed in this manner, show a more complicated pattern of rings involving two foci and a
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Fresnel, the defining feature of polarized light was that the perpendicular components of vibration had a fixed ratio of amplitudes and a fixed difference in phase. By that definition, elliptically or circularly polarized light is
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as the "unaffected" and "affected" selections of the rays incident on the lamina. If Biot's substitutions were accurate, they would imply that his experimental results were more fully explained by Fresnel's theory than by his own.
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attributes to Laplace is not found in the relevant passage from Laplace's writings (appended to Fresnel's memoir by the translator), which is similar to the passage previously demolished by Young; however, an equivalent statement
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5170:, Cauchy—seem to have adopted the theory immediately." Fresnel's other prominent French opponent, Biot, appeared to take a neutral position in 1830, and eventually accepted the wave theory—possibly by 1846 and certainly by 1858.
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It has only been for a few months that in meditating more attentively on this subject, I have realized that it was very probable that the oscillatory movements of light waves were executed solely along the plane of these waves,
1690:, saying that the vibration at each point on a wavefront is the sum of the vibrations that would be sent to it at that moment by all the elements of the wavefront in any of its previous positions, all elements acting separately
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Later in July, after Napoleon's final defeat, Fresnel was reinstated with the advantage of having backed the winning side. He requested a two-month leave of absence, which was readily granted because roadworks were in abeyance.
1014:) at the red end of the spectrum, and the highest frequencies (shortest wavelengths) at the violet end. In 1672 he published a heavy hint to that effect, but contemporary supporters of the wave theory failed to act on it:
6738:(facing p. 787), including the hyperbolic paths of the fringes in that pattern (Fig. 442) followed by sketches of other diffraction patterns and thin-plate patterns, with no visual hints on their physical causes. In
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were due to a directional variation in elasticity, not density (because the concept of mass per unit volume is not directional). But in his treatment of partial reflection, he supposed that the different refractive indices of
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336; on the latter page, a "prism" means a Fresnel rhomb or equivalent. A footnote in the 1817 memoir (Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. 460, note 2) described the emulator more briefly, and not in a self-contained
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of 1814 has not survived. The article "Sur les Différents Systèmes relatifs à la Théorie de la Lumière" ("On the Different Systems relating to the Theory of Light"), which Fresnel wrote for the newly launched English journal
5772:("complete works") began to appear in 1866. The "supplement" of July 1816, proposing the "efficacious ray" and reporting the famous double-mirror experiment, met the same fate, as did the "first memoir" on double refraction.
4307:) is tangential to all possible plane wavefronts that could have crossed the origin one unit of time ago, and he listed the mathematical conditions that it must satisfy. But he doubted the feasibility of deriving the surface
9478:, vol. 6 (1824), at p. 862, reprinted in Young, 1855, at p. 415 (italics and exclamation marks in the original). The "Lectures" that Young quotes next are his own (Young, 1807, vol. 1, p. 627).
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A. Fresnel, "Note sur la double réfraction du verre comprimé" ("Note on the double refraction of compressed glass"), read 16 September 1822, published 1822; reprinted in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 713–718, at
1275:. To reconcile his results with a sinusoidal oscillation, Biot had to suppose that the corpuscles emerged with one of two permitted orientations, namely the extremes of the oscillation, with probabilities depending on the
9470:, it might be inferred that the luminiferous ether, pervading all space, and penetrating almost all substances, is not only highly elastic, but absolutely solid!!!" — Thomas Young (written January 1823), Sect.
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The same memoir contained Fresnel's first attempt at the biaxial velocity law. For calcite, if we interchange the equatorial and polar radii of Huygens's oblate spheroid while preserving the polar direction, we obtain a
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In the draft memoir of 30 August 1816, Fresnel mentioned two hypotheses—one of which he attributed to Ampère—by which the non-interference of orthogonally-polarized beams could be explained if polarized light waves were
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According to this new view, he wrote, "the act of polarization consists not in creating these transverse movements, but in decomposing them into two fixed perpendicular directions and in separating the two components".
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polarization)—could be explained by the wave theory in terms of the different propagation times of the ordinary and extraordinary waves through the plate. But Young was then the only public defender of the wave theory.
1102:, then sought to explain this law in corpuscular terms: from the known relation between the incident and refracted ray directions, Malus derived the corpuscular velocity (as a function of direction) that would satisfy
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theory in the 1860s, some attention was diverted from the magnitude of Fresnel's contribution. In the period between Fresnel's unification of physical optics and Maxwell's wider unification, a contemporary authority,
4649:{\displaystyle r^{2}{\big (}a^{2}x^{2\!}+b^{2}y^{2\!}+c^{2}z^{2}{\big )}-a^{2}{\big (}b^{2\!}+c^{2}{\big )}x^{2}-b^{2}{\big (}c^{2\!}+a^{2}{\big )}y^{2}-c^{2}{\big (}a^{2\!}+b^{2}{\big )}z^{2}+a^{2}b^{2}c^{2}=\,0\,,}
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oscillation, Fresnel did not (yet) explain them that way. Hence he still needed the phase-inversion rule. He applied all these principles to a case of chromatic polarization not covered by Biot's formulae, involving
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calculated the precise angle at which a Fresnel rhomb should be cut in order to convert linear polarization to circular polarization. For a refractive index of 1.51, there were two solutions: about 48.6° and 54.6°.
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The same note included a table of the integrals, for an upper limit ranging from 0 to 5.1 in steps of 0.1, computed with a mean error of 0.0003, plus a smaller table of maxima and minima of the resulting intensity.
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Crew, 1900, pp. 101–108 (vector-like representation), 109 (no retrograde radiation), 110–111 (directionality and distance), 118–122 (derivation of integrals), 124–125 (maxima & minima), 129–131 (geometric
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Silliman, 1967, pp. 28–33; Levitt, 2013, p. 29; Buchwald, 1989, pp. 113–114. The surviving correspondence on soda ash extends from August 1811 to April 1812; see Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2,
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In 1825, Fresnel extended his fixed-lens design by adding a rotating array outside the fixed array. Each panel of the rotating array was to refract part of the fixed light from a horizontal fan into a narrow beam.
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on the nature of polarization, prompting Young to remark that Malus's observations "present greater difficulties to the advocates of the undulatory theory than any other facts with which we are acquainted."
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by straight edges, including the first satisfactory wave-based explanation of rectilinear propagation. Part of his argument was a proof that the addition of sinusoidal functions of the same frequency but different
12035:, in Taylor, 1852, pp. 238–333. (Cited page numbers refer to the translation. For notable errata in the original edition, and consequently in the translation, see Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, p. 596n.)
5031:, short side to short side, with their 90° angles pointing in alternating directions. Two half-prisms were added at the ends to make the whole assembly rectangular. The prisms were separated by thin films of
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directions. If these components propagated at slightly different speeds, the phase difference between them—and therefore the direction of their linearly-polarized resultant—would vary continuously with distance.
11847:), pp. 125–135; also translated (with several errors) by R.R. Traill as "Letter from Augustin Fresnel to François Arago concerning the influence of terrestrial movement on several optical phenomena",
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Fresnel's cough worsened in the winter of 1826–1827, leaving him too ill to return to Mathieu in the spring. The Académie meeting of 30 April 1827 was the last that he attended. In early June he was carried to
891:). The corpuscular theory, with the hypothesis that the corpuscles were subject to forces acting perpendicular to surfaces, explained the same laws equally well, albeit with the implication that light traveled
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polarized in the sense of having a particular transverse orientation, and that the "unpolarized" state of natural or "direct" light is due to rapid and random variations in that orientation, in which case two
12073:, chapter 13 (pp. 852–915, "The entry of Fresnel: Physical optics, 1815–1824") and chapter 15 (pp. 968–1045, "The entry of Navier and the triumph of Cauchy: Elasticity theory, 1819–1830").
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It is not known exactly when Fresnel made this last step, because there is no relevant documentation from 1820 or early 1821 (perhaps because he was too busy working on lighthouse-lens prototypes; see
480:, to which he succumbed at the age of 39. Although he did not become a public celebrity in his lifetime, he lived just long enough to receive due recognition from his peers, including (on his deathbed) the
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lens, installed at Ailly in 1852, gave eight rotating beams assisted by eight catadioptric panels at the top (to lengthen the flashes), plus a fixed light from below. The first fully catadioptric lens with
3806:. The same technique is applicable to non-metallic opaque media. With these generalizations, the Fresnel equations can predict the appearance of a wide variety of objects under illumination—for example, in
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Silliman (1967, p. 163) and Frankel (1976, p. 156) give the date of Arago's note on scintillation as 1814; but the sequence of events implies 1816, in agreement with Darrigol (2012, pp. 201,
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suggested that it would be easier to make the annular sections separately and assemble them on a frame; but even that was impractical at the time. These designs were intended not for lighthouses, but for
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found by experiment that light travels more slowly in water than in air, in accordance with the wave explanation of refraction and contrary to the corpuscular explanation, the result came as no surprise.
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polarized") light, for which the two images would be of the same color. Rotating the calcite around the line of sight changed the colors, though they remained complementary. Rotating the mica changed the
1489:, of which Arago had recently become co-editor. That issue did not actually appear until May. In March, Fresnel already had competition: Biot read a memoir on diffraction by himself and his student
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birefringent crystals produce both extraordinary refraction and polarization. As the corpuscularists started trying to explain these things in terms of polar "molecules" of light, the wave-theorists had
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the shadow of a narrow obstacle were due to interference: when the light from one side was blocked, the internal fringes disappeared. But Young was alone in such efforts until Fresnel entered the field.
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and attributed the observed repulsive force to a temperature difference. Although his fundamental research ceased, his advocacy did not; as late as August or September 1826, he found the time to answer
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in 1866, and Léonor Fresnel in 1869, by which time only two of the three volumes had appeared. At the beginning of vol. 3 (1870), the completion of the project is described in a long footnote by "
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B. Powell), 1857, "Fresnel" (elegy read at the Public Meeting of the Academy of Sciences, 26 July 1830), in D.F.J. Arago (tr. W.H. Smyth, B. Powell, and R. Grant),
4227:). Biot's laws meant that a biaxial crystal with axes at a small angle, cleaved in the plane of those axes, behaved nearly like a uniaxial crystal at near-normal incidence; this was fortunate because
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Silliman, 1967, pp. 173–175; Buchwald, 1989, pp. 137–138; Darrigol, 2012, pp. 201–2; Boutry, 1948, p. 597; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 123–128 (Arago's announcement).
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Fresnel was troubled, wanting to know more precisely where he had collided with Young. Concerning the curved paths of the "colored bands", Young had noted the hyperbolic paths of the fringes in the
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1331:, who did not respond directly. But on 19 December, Mérimée dined with Ampère and Arago, with whom he was acquainted through the École Polytechnique; and Arago promised to look at Fresnel's essay.
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2036:, "The competition facing Fresnel could hardly have been less stiff." We may infer that the committee had only two options: award the prize to Fresnel ("no. 2"), or withhold it.
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Fresnel would not have ready access to these works outside Paris, and could not read English. But, in Mathieu—with a point-source of light made by focusing sunlight with a drop of honey, a crude
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730:, to assist with the imperial highway that was to connect Spain and Italy. It is from Nyons that we have the first evidence of his interest in optics. On 15 May 1814, while work was slack due to
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for that year, cited Newton's hint, and accounted for the colors of a thin plate as the combined effect of the front and back reflections, which reinforce or cancel each other according to the
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Kipnis, 1991, p. 218; Buchwald, 2013, p. 453; Levitt, 2013, p. 44. Frankel (1976, pp. 160–161) and Grattan-Guinness (1990, p. 867) note that the topic was first
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It would, perhaps, be too fanciful to attempt to establish a parallelism between the prominent persons who figure in these two histories. If we were to do this, we must consider Huyghens and
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But Malus, in the midst of his experiments on double refraction, noticed something else: when a ray of light is reflected off a non-metallic surface at the appropriate angle, it behaves like
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Fresnel himself took over as Secretary (Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 3, p. 6n). Thus, unfortunately, it is not possible to ascertain the exact date on which Fresnel formally recommended
6249:, in which he described Fresnel's transverse-wave theory as "the noblest fabric which has ever adorned the domain of physical science, Newton's system of the universe alone excepted."
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The analytical complexity of Fresnel's derivation of the ray-velocity surface was an implicit challenge to find a shorter path to the result. This was answered by MacCullagh in 1830, and by
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pp. 753–762 (extract, published 1823). See especially pp. 773 (sine law), 757 (tangent law), 760–761 and 792–796 (angles of total internal reflection for given phase differences).
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for the year 1824, "For his Development of the Undulatory Theory as applied to the Phenomena of Polarized Light, and for his various important discoveries in Physical Optics."
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the idea that polarization depends on the orientation of a transverse vibration. But these incomplete theories had not reconciled the nature of polarization with the apparent existence of
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beyond the ordinary laws of reflection and refraction, emissionists never managed to make testable quantitative predictions from a theory of forces acting on corpuscles of light. But they
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components were initially of equal magnitude, the initial polarization (top graph) would be at 45° to the plane of incidence, and the final polarization (bottom graph) would be
11796:
A. Fresnel, 1818b, "Mémoire sur la diffraction de la lumière" ("Memoir on the diffraction of light"), deposited 29 July 1818, "crowned" 15 March 1819, published (with appended notes) in
10125:"V. On the effects of simple pressure in producing that species of crystallization which forms two oppositely polarised images, and exhibits the complementary colours by polarised light"
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The Observations of Newton Concerning the Inflections of Light; Accompanied by Other Observations Differing from His; and Appearing to Lead to a Change of His Theory of Light and Colours
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patented a method of making such lenses from press-molded glass. By the 1950s, the substitution of plastic for glass made it economic to use fine-stepped Fresnel lenses as condensers in
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Silliman, 1967, pp. 284–285, citing Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. lxxxix, note 2. Frankel (1976, p. 173) agrees. Worrall (1989, p. 140) is skeptical.
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In the history of physical optics, Fresnel's successful revival of the wave theory nominates him as the pivotal figure between Newton, who held that light consisted of corpuscles, and
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As Fresnel was not a member of the institute, the fate of his memoir depended heavily on the report of a single member. The reporter for Fresnel's memoir turned out to be Arago (with
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Buchwald, 1989, pp. 333–336; Darrigol, 2012, pp. 207–208. (Darrigol gives the date as 1817, but the page numbers in his footnote 95 fit his reference "1818b", not "1817".)
5203:, unreservedly accepted the wave theory by 1831. In 1834, he famously calculated the diffraction pattern of a circular aperture from the wave theory, thereby explaining the limited
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cases, because he had not yet solved the problem of superposing sinusoidal functions with arbitrary phase differences due to propagation at different velocities through the lamina.
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and offered his services to the royalist resistance, but soon found himself on the sick list. Returning to Nyons in defeat, he was threatened and had his windows broken. During the
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of the oscillation. Corpuscular optics was becoming expensive on assumptions. But in 1813, Biot reported that the case of quartz was simpler: the observable phenomenon (now called
11827:, Ser. 2, vol. 9, pp. 57–66 & plate after p. 111 (Sep. 1818), & pp. 286–287 (Nov. 1818); reprinted in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2,
501:, described Fresnel's transverse-wave theory as "the noblest fabric which has ever adorned the domain of physical science, Newton's system of the universe alone excepted."
436:). The period between the first publication of his pure-transverse-wave hypothesis, and the submission of his first correct solution to the biaxial problem, was less than a year.
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reflectivities to be measured accurately enough to test Fresnel's formulae at arbitrary angles of incidence. But the formulae could be rewritten in terms of what we now call the
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Fresnel's problem rather than his own—and that the predicted waves, even if they were initially transverse, became more longitudinal as they propagated. In reply Fresnel noted,
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The unanimous report of the committee, read at the meeting of the Académie on 15 March 1819, awarded the prize to "the memoir marked no. 2, and bearing as epigraph:
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563:, became a linguist, diplomat, and orientalist, and occasionally assisted Augustin with negotiations. Fulgence died in Bagdad in 1855 having led a mission to explore Babylon.
9454:"This hypothesis of Mr. Fresnel is at least very ingenious, and may lead us to some satisfactory computations: but it is attended by one circumstance which is perfectly
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As the author notes, alternative rules for the extraordinary refraction were offered by La Hire in 1710 and by Haüy in 1788 (see pp. 332–334, 335–337, respectively).
10174:"X. On the communication of the structure of doubly refracting crystals to glass, muriate of soda, fluor spar, and other substances, by mechanical compression and dilatation"
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Silliman, 1967, pp. 243–246 (first experiment); Buchwald, 1989, pp. 261–267 (both experiments). The first experiment was briefly reported earlier in Fresnel, 1821c.
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Fresnel was not the first person to focus a lighthouse beam using a lens. That distinction apparently belongs to the London glass-cutter Thomas Rogers, whose first lenses, 53
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Fresnel gave details of the "mechanical solution" in a memoir read to the Académie des Sciences on 7 January 1823. Conservation of energy was combined with continuity of the
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gratings—although in that case the interfering rays were still assumed to be "inflected", and the experimental verification was inadequate because it used only two threads.
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he was placed on suspension, which he was eventually allowed to spend at his mother's house in Mathieu. There he used his enforced leisure to begin his optical experiments.
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Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, p. 803n. Grattan-Guinness (1990, p. 884n) gives the year of composition as 1825, but this does not match the primary sources.
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The third installment (July 1821) was a short "postscript" in which Fresnel announced that he had found, by a "mechanical solution", a formula for the reflectivity of the
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245–246). According to Kipnis (1991, pp. 221–222), the real significance of Poisson's spot and its complement (at the center of the disk of light cast by a circular
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by the Roman Catholic Church, and Grattan-Guinness suggests this is why Fresnel never gained a permanent academic teaching post; his only teaching appointment was at the
11777:, Ser. 2, vol. 1, pp. 239–281 (March 1816); reprinted as "Deuxième Mémoire…" ("Second Memoir…") in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 89–122.
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Levitt, 2013, pp. 59–66. On the dimensions see Elton, 2009, pp. 193–194; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 3, p. xxxiv; Fresnel, 1822b, tr. Tag, p. 7.
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anticipating somewhat the judgement of posterity, declared that he placed these researches above everything that had been communicated to the Académie for a long time.
6286:, laborious in accumulating observations, inventive and happy in discovering laws of phenomena; and Young and Fresnel combined, make up the Newton of optical science.
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parallel to the axis"), read 9 December 1822; printed in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 731–751 (full text), pp. 719–29 (extract, first published in
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theory of double refraction, the ray velocity was proportional to the reciprocal of that given by Huygens's theory, in which case the velocity law was of the form
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of polarization by averaging out the transverse component, he did not also need to assume a longitudinal component. It was enough to suppose that light waves are
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successive laminae with axes separated by 45°, and obtained predictions that disagreed with Biot's experiments (except in special cases) but agreed with his own.
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Worrall, 1989, pp. 143–145. The printed version of the report also refers to a note (E), but this note concerns further investigations that took place
6309:. Moreover, the phenomena studied by Fresnel, which included nearly all the optical phenomena known at his time, are still most easily explained in terms of the
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Everywhere I looked, the story repeated itself. The moment a Fresnel lens appeared at a location was the moment that region became linked into the world economy.
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By the end of August 1819, unaware of the Buffon-Condorcet-Brewster proposal, Fresnel made his first presentation to the commission, recommending what he called
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Darrigol, 2012, p. 198. Silliman (1967, p. 146) identifies the brother as Fulgence, then in Paris; cf. Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. 7n.
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media, the secondary wavefronts must be spherical, and Huygens's construction then implies that the rays are perpendicular to the wavefront; indeed, the law of
6813:") if it was merely delivered to the Permanent Secretary of the Académie for witnessing or processing (cf. vol. 1, p. 487; vol. 2, pp. 261,
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was not considered. That difference may explain why leading chemists, who learned of his discovery through his uncle Léonor, eventually thought it uneconomic.
1156:. In the case of polarization by reflection, his "plane of polarization" was the plane of the incident and reflected rays; in modern terms, this is the plane
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1043; Whittaker, 1910, pp. 143–145; Darrigol, 2012, p. 228. Grattan-Guinness offers evidence against any earlier dating of Cauchy's theories.
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Earlier in the "second supplement", Fresnel modeled the medium as an array of point-masses and found that the force-displacement relation was described by a
1778:
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Diffraction fringes near the limit of the geometric shadow of a straight edge. Light intensities were calculated from the values of the normalized integrals
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Printed label seen through a doubly-refracting calcite crystal and a modern polarizing filter (rotated to show the different polarizations of the two images)
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and (until 1814) a professor at the École Polytechnique, and was the initial point of contact between Augustin and the leading optical physicists of the day
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could be understood as a difference in propagation speeds for the two directions of circular polarization, and (by allowing the reflection coefficient to be
5624: Arago, Laplace, and Biot never gave me as much pleasure as the discovery of a theoretical truth and the confirmation of my calculations by experiment.
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its tangent planes was eventually accomplished by Ampère in 1828 (Lloyd, 1834, pp. 386–387; Darrigol, 2012, p. 218; Buchwald, 1989, pp. 281,
6201:, in which the first Fresnel lens entered service in 1823. The current fixed catadioptric "beehive" lens replaced Fresnel's original rotating lens in 1854.
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of rays, and that distribution was presumed to be static. For Fresnel, the state of polarization of a beam concerned the variation of a displacement over
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535–539; reprinted in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 3–146; translated by T. Young as "Elementary view of the undulatory theory of light",
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Crew, 1900, pp. 127–128 (wavelength), 129–131 (half-plane), 132–135 (extrema, slit); Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 350–355 (narrow strip).
7309:, and reprinted in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 681–684. Boutry (1948, p. 591) takes this story as referring to the entrance examination.
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plane of symmetry of the ellipsoid in two curves: a circle and an ellipse. Thus he found that the "wave surface" is described by the 4th-degree equation
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Huygens, 1690, tr. Thompson, pp. 92–94. For simplicity, the above text describes a special case; Huygens's description has greater generality.
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cm in front. The faint colors of the fringes show the wavelength-dependence of the diffraction pattern. In the center is Poisson's /Arago's spot.
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Darrigol, 2012, p. 201; the letter is printed in Young, 1855, pp. 376–378, and its conclusion is translated by Silliman (1967, p. 170).
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lens—for spreading light evenly around the horizon while minimizing waste above or below. Ideally the curved refracting surfaces would be segments of
5041:) to suppress internal reflections, allowing a clear line of sight along the row. When the four prisms with similar orientations were compressed in a
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polarized although it cannot be fully suppressed by an analyzer alone. The conceptual gap between the wave theory and selectionism had widened again.
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J. Elton, 2009, "A Light to Lighten our Darkness: Lighthouse Optics and the Later Development of Fresnel's Revolutionary Refracting Lens 1780–1900",
11010:. (This entry inaccurately describes Fresnel as the "discoverer" of polarization of light and as a "Fellow" of the Royal Society, whereas in fact he
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Buchwald, 1989, pp. 169–171; Frankel, 1976, p. 161; Silliman, 1967, pp. 183–184; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. xxxvi–xxxvii.
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Levitt (2013, p. 23) says "in 1790". Silliman (1967, p. 7) says "by 1790". Boutry (1948, p. 590) says the family left Broglie in 1789.
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under Fresnel's supervision. On 25 July 1823, the world's first lighthouse Fresnel lens was lit. Soon afterwards, Fresnel started coughing up blood.
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across the line of sight, an object viewed through the assembly produced two images with perpendicular polarizations, with an apparent spacing of 1.5
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Biot's dihedral law is exact provided that the binormals are taken as the optic axes, and the wave-normal direction as the direction of propagation.
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is the phase lag of the extraordinary wave relative to the ordinary wave due to the difference in propagation times through the lamina. The terms in
5348:(lenses by steps) to replace the reflectors then in use, which reflected only about half of the incident light. One of the assembled commissioners,
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in 1789. Further samples were installed in about half a dozen other locations by 1804. But much of the light was wasted by absorption in the glass.
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Ordinary refraction from a medium of higher wave velocity to a medium of lower wave velocity, as understood by Huygens. Successive positions of the
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component (middle graph). After two such reflections, the phase difference is 1/4 of a cycle (bottom graph), so that the polarization is
1617:) made it hard to believe that the two-slit pattern had anything to do with corpuscles being deflected as they passed near the edges of the slits.
1041:) as the wavelength-dependent reinforcement or cancellation of reflections from adjacent lines. He described this reinforcement or cancellation as
898:
5953:. He supported that hypothesis by supposing that if the density of the external aether was taken as unity, the density of the internal aether was
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waves—causing Newton to maintain, to the end of his life, that if light consisted of waves it would "bend and spread every way" into the shadows.
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Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 737–739 (§4). Cf. Whewell, 1857, p. 356–358; Jenkins & White, 1976, pp. 589–590.
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transverse, and Ampère "had the same thought" on the phase-inversion rule. But that would raise a new difficulty: as natural light seemed to be
626:(National School of Bridges and Roads, also known as "ENPC" or "École des Ponts"), from which he graduated in 1809, entering the service of the
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7678:"Mr. Isaac Newtons answer to some considerations upon his doctrine of light and colors; which doctrine was printed in Numb. 80 of these tracts"
5088:, and Poisson. Their report, of which Arago was clearly the main author, was delivered at the meeting of 19 August 1822. Then, in the words of
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will pass through too many cycles as the frequency varies through the visible range, and the eye (which divides the visible spectrum into only
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polarization of one beam was rotated, giving full interference for parallel polarizations, but no interference for perpendicular polarizations
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in 1728, stellar aberration was widely taken as confirmation of the corpuscular theory. But it was equally compatible with the wave theory, as
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I would also like to have papers that might tell me about the discoveries of French physicists on the polarization of light. I saw in the
634:(ordinary engineer in training). Directly or indirectly, he was to remain in the employment of the "Corps des Ponts" for the rest of his life.
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resistance has ever been attributed: so that if we adopted the distinctions laid down by the reviver of the undulatory system himself, in his
5352:, recalled Buffon's suggestion, leaving Fresnel embarrassed for having again "broken through an open door". But, whereas Buffon's version was
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axes, and reported that both generalizations seemed to be confirmed by experiment. For the velocity law, the squared sine was replaced by the
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11254:("Analysis of the meaning and evolution of Ampère’s force between current elements, together with a complete translation of his masterpiece:
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in denser media; that implication was wrong, but could not be directly disproven with the technology of Newton's time or even Fresnel's time
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refraction, the secondary wavefronts (gray curves) are spherical, so that the rays (straight gray lines) are perpendicular to the wavefronts.
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5779:, who died in 1841. It was restarted twenty years later by the Ministry of Public Instruction. Of the three editors eventually named in the
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each other under a very small angle can contradict each other…" But, whereas Young took the disappearance of the internal fringes as
473:. Defenders of the established corpuscular theory could not match his quantitative explanations of so many phenomena on so few assumptions.
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A. Fresnel, 1822b, "Mémoire sur un nouveau système d'éclairage des phares", read 29 July 1822; reprinted in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 3,
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913–914; Arago, 1857, p. 408. Silliman (1967, p. 262n) gives the dates of the respective elections as 27 January and 12 May 1823.
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Young to Arago (in English), 12 January 1817, in Young, 1855, pp. 380–384, at p. 381; quoted in Silliman, 1967, p. 171.
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their respective vibrations. The direction of the optic axis is the normal to the plane for which the ellipse of intersection reduces to a
912:—that is, the apparent change in the position of a star due to the velocity of the earth across the line of sight (not to be confused with
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A. Fresnel, 1818c, "Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Arago sur l'influence du mouvement terrestre dans quelques phénomènes d'optique",
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in retrospect that his methods are applicable to multiple types of waves. The second revision, initiated by Einstein's explanation of the
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Fresnel's initial derivation of the surface of elasticity had been purely geometric, and not deductively rigorous. His first attempt at a
12086:, University of Chicago Press, 1912; Project Gutenberg, 2005. (Cited page numbers match the 1912 edition and the Gutenberg HTML edition.)
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These equations were included in an undated note that Fresnel gave to Biot, to which Biot added a few lines of his own. If we substitute
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longitudinal modes of propagation and was hard to reconcile with a fluid medium (Silliman, 1967, pp. 214–215; Fresnel, 1821a, §13).
5408:, reflected the light to the horizon, giving a fainter steady light between the flashes. The official test, conducted on the unfinished
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Arago's letter went on to request more data on the external fringes. Fresnel complied, until he exhausted his leave and was assigned to
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fringes of a shadow; but, as he later explained, that was because Newton had already done so. Newton evidently thought the fringes were
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Buchwald, 1989, pp. 116–117; Silliman, 1967, pp. 40–45; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, p. 831; Levitt, 2009, p. 49.
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Production of one-piece stepped dioptric lenses—roughly as envisaged by Buffon—became practical in 1852, when John L. Gilliland of the
1654:, and returned to Paris. He resumed his engineering duties in the spring of 1818; but from then on he was based in Paris, first on the
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MacCullagh, as early as 1830, wrote that Fresnel's mechanical theory of double refraction "would do honour to the sagacity of Newton".
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Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. 394n; Fresnel, 1821a, §10; Silliman, 1967, pp. 209–210; Buchwald, 1989, pp. 205–206,
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contribute to the curved path of a fringe, so that the same fringe is made by different rays at different distances from the obstacle
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Publication of Fresnel's collected works was itself delayed by the deaths of successive editors. The task was initially entrusted to
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about a common vertical axis, so that the dioptric panel would look like a cylindrical drum. If this was supplemented by reflecting (
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relative to the external aether (taken as stationary), then the velocity of light inside the object gained the additional component
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Scientific Memoirs, selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies, and from Foreign Journals
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308). In such cases this article prefers the generic word "submitted", to avoid the impression that the paper had a formal reading.
6274:, since, like him, they announced the true theory, but left it to a future age to give it development and mechanical confirmation;
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exactly specified) gave a phase difference of 1/8 of a cycle (45°). Two such reflections from the "parallel faces" of "two coupled
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2144:. These experiments, among others, were eventually reported in a brief memoir published in 1819 and later translated into English.
1457:. Thus Arago erred in his belief that the curved paths of the fringes were fundamentally incompatible with the corpuscular theory.
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5334:. Brewster, however, proposed a system similar to Condorcet's in 1811, and by 1820 was advocating its use in British lighthouses.
2597:{\displaystyle I_{e}=\cos ^{2}i\,\sin ^{2}(i{-}s)+\sin ^{2}i\,\cos ^{2}(i{-}s)-{\tfrac {1}{2}}\sin 2i\,\sin 2(i{-}s)\cos \phi \,,}
2396:{\displaystyle I_{o}=\cos ^{2}i\,\cos ^{2}(i{-}s)+\sin ^{2}i\,\sin ^{2}(i{-}s)+{\tfrac {1}{2}}\sin 2i\,\sin 2(i{-}s)\cos \phi \,,}
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8651:. Prizes were offered in odd-numbered years for physics and in even-numbered years for mathematics (Frankel, 1974, p. 224n).
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In his analysis of double refraction, Fresnel supposed that the different refractive indices in different directions within the
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On 10 November, Fresnel sent a supplementary note dealing with Newton's rings and with gratings, including, for the first time,
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parallel plates connected by a substance somewhat less elastic" admits spheroidal longitudinal wavefronts, as Huygens supposed.
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does not mention his Jansenism, but describes him as "a deeply religious man and remarkable for his keen sense of duty."
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D.F.J. Arago and A. Fresnel, 1819, "Mémoire sur l'action que les rayons de lumière polarisée exercent les uns sur les autres",
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In the fall of 1817, Fresnel, supported by de Prony, obtained a leave of absence from the new head of the Corp des Ponts,
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the only doubly refractive crystals known before Fresnel; see (e.g.) Young, 1855, p. 250 (written 1810) and pp. 262,
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in 1836. The first large catadioptric lenses were fixed third-order lenses made in 1842 for the lighthouses at Gravelines and
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In a uniform crystal, according to Huygens's theory, the secondary wavefront that expands from the origin in unit time is the
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to the "plane of polarization", the ordinary and extraordinary vibrations (as functions of time) are scaled by the factors cos
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polarized" in the sense that there was no orientation of the calcite that made one image disappear; yet it was not ordinary ("
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A. Fresnel, 1821a, "Note sur le calcul des teintes que la polarisation développe dans les lames cristallisées" et seq.,
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Meanwhile, in Britain, the wave theory was yet to take hold; Fresnel wrote to Thomas Young in November 1824, saying in part:
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under the guidance of Léonor Fresnel, and fabricated by Isaac Cookson & Co. from French glass; it entered service at the
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third surface. The result was the lighthouse lens as we now know it. In 1826 he assembled a small model for use on the
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The other difficulty posed by pure transverse waves, of course, was the apparent implication that the aether was an elastic
11833:"Letter from Augustin Fresnel to François Arago, on the influence of the movement of the earth on some phenomena of optics"
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9771:"Extrait d'un Mémoire sur les lois de la double réfraction et de la polarisation dans les corps régulièrement cristallisés"
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To examine Fresnel's first memoir and supplements on double refraction, the Académie des Sciences appointed Ampère, Arago,
4219:). And for the polarization of the ordinary ray, the plane of the ray and the axis was replaced by the plane bisecting the
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Thus Fresnel, by his own testimony, may not have been the first person to suspect that light waves could have a transverse
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In July or August 1816, Fresnel discovered that when a birefringent crystal produced two images of a single slit, he could
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not (yet) fully accepted Huygens's principle, which would have permitted oblique radiation from all portions of the front.
627:
488:, and his name is ubiquitous in the modern terminology of optics and waves. After the wave theory of light was subsumed by
293:
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E. Frankel, 1976, "Corpuscular optics and the wave theory of light: The science and politics of a revolution in physics",
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5466:(Lighthouse Map), calling for a system of 51 lighthouses plus smaller harbor lights, in a hierarchy of lens sizes (called
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planes passing through the center of the ellipsoid and cutting it in a circle, and the normals to these planes would give
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On 29 March 1819, Biot presented a memoir in which he proposed simple generalizations of Malus's rules for a crystal with
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vibration at the interface. The resulting formulae for the reflection coefficients and reflectivities became known as the
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in February 1818, in which he added that Malus's law would be explained if polarization consisted in a transverse motion.
1291:) was a gradual rotation of the polarization direction with distance, and could be explained by a corresponding rotation (
947:), on the assumption that the secondary waves are spherical for the ordinary refraction (which satisfies Snell's law) and
9753:"Mémoire sur les lois générales de la double réfraction et de la polarisation, dans les corps régulièrement cristallisés"
3489:: the ratio of the reflected intensity to the incident intensity. The predicted reflectivity was non-zero at all angles.
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As late as 28 December he was still waiting for information, but by 10 February 1815 he had received Biot's memoir. (The
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read to the Académie in January 1823, was thought to be lost until it was rediscovered among the papers of the deceased
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optic axes. From the geometry, Fresnel deduced Biot's sine law (with the ray velocities replaced by their reciprocals).
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was ordinary in the sense of satisfying Snell's law; that is, neither ray was the product of spherical secondary waves.
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Frankel, 1976, p. 162. However, Kipnis (1991, pp. 222–224) offers evidence that the unsuccessful entrant was
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1436:
1077:, as they would later be called); but waves of light could not, because (so it seemed) any such waves would need to be
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Silliman, 1967, pp. 163–164; Frankel, 1976, p. 158; Boutry, 1948, p. 597; Levitt, 2013, pp. 41–43,
5802: are two short notes by Fresnel on magnetism, which were discovered among Ampère's manuscripts. In response to
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is partly eroded away; the legible part says, when translated, "To the memory of Augustin Jean Fresnel, member of the
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A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity: From the age of Descartes to the close of the nineteenth century
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Buchwald (1989, pp. 267–272) and Grattan-Guinness (1990, pp. 893–894 call it the "ellipsoid of elasticity".
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Buchwald, 1989, pp. 393–394; Whittaker, 1910, pp. 135–136; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 760–761,
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Buchwald, 1989, pp. 283–285; Darrigol, 2012, pp. 217–218; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 386–388.
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Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 533–537. On the provenance of the note, see p. 523. In the above text,
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merely regarded Fresnel's theory as a successful generalization of Malus's ray-velocity law, embracing Biot's laws.
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the edges of the obstacle. To explain this, he divided the incident wavefront at the obstacle into what we now call
12012:, U.S. Lighthouse Society, accessed 26 August 2017; 19 August 2016. (Cited page numbers refer to the translation.)
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E. Frankel, 1974, "The search for a corpuscular theory of double refraction: Malus, Laplace and the price [
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On 17 March 1817, the Académie des Sciences announced that diffraction would be the topic for the biannual physics
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and spoke of the wave theory and stellar aberration. He was informed that he was trying to break down open doors ("
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is analogous to the addition of forces with different directions. By further supposing that light waves are purely
12287:"Fresnel, Poisson and the white spot: The role of successful predictions in the acceptance of scientific theories"
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Christianity and the Leaders of Modern Science: A contribution to the history of culture in the nineteenth century
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Levitt, 2013, pp. 38–39; Boutry, 1948, p. 594; Arago, 1857, pp. 405–406; Kipnis, 1991, p. 167.
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2824:-dependent term would be the same in both equations, implying (incorrectly) that the colors were of the same hue.
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is the angle from the initial plane of polarization to the plane of polarization of the final ordinary image, and
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In 1808, the extraordinary refraction of calcite was investigated experimentally, with unprecedented accuracy, by
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2187:, respectively. Although modern readers easily interpret these factors in terms of perpendicular components of a
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380:
8254:), London: T. Cadell Jr. & W. Davies, 1799; reviewed in T.G. Smollett (ed.),
7635:: In Fig. 7(b), each instance of "ray" should be "normal" (noted in vol. 27, no. 6, p. 387).
7411:"Salts, acids & alkalis in the 19th century; a comparison between advances in France, England & Germany"
6153:, and it was found to be tolerably consistent with the variation of refractive indices with wavelength over the
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polarized, the two components are in phase (top graph). After one reflection at the appropriate angle, the
4919:{\displaystyle {\frac {x^{2}}{r^{2}-a^{2}}}+{\frac {y^{2}}{r^{2}-b^{2}}}+{\frac {z^{2}}{r^{2}-c^{2}}}\,=\,1\,.}
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In his final "Memoir on the diffraction of light", deposited on 29 July and bearing the Latin epigraph "
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Although Newton rejected the wave theory, he noticed its potential to explain colors, including the colors of "
559:, succeeded him as secretary of the Lighthouse Commission, and helped to edit his collected works. The fourth,
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Boutry, 1948, pp. 601–602; Silliman, 1967, p. 278; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 667–672.
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6092:. The factor in parentheses, which Fresnel originally expressed in terms of wavelengths, became known as the
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But "the praise of English scholars" soon followed. On 9 June 1825, Fresnel was made a Foreign Member of the
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was viewed against a white polarized backlight through a calcite crystal, the two images of the mica were of
1098:, and found to be consistent with Huygens's spheroid construction, not Newton's "Rule". Malus, encouraged by
517:(facing Rue Jean François Mérimée), inaugurated on 14 September 1884. The inscription, when translated, says:
340:, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century. He is perhaps better known for inventing the
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Fresnel, 1827, tr. Hobson, pp. 273–281; Silliman, 1967, p. 268n; Buchwald, 1989, p. 288.
8454:(cf. Darrigol, 2012, p. 101, Fig. 3.11 – where, in the caption, "1904" should be "1704" and "
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3842:) for the simple case in which the perpendicular components of vibration are in phase or 180° out of phase,
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law that would yield the alleged velocity law, except by a circular argument in which a force acting at the
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Proces-verbaux des séances de l'Académie tenues depuis la fondation de l'Institut jusqu'au mois d'août 1835
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on 10 February 1817. Darrigol alone (2012, p. 203) says that the competition was "opened" on 17 March
6746:, Fig. 108 (p. 632) shows just one case of an undeviated direct ray intersecting a reflected ray.
6734:(facing p. 777), including the famous two-source interference pattern (Fig. 267), and Plate
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queries on the wave theory. It was Herschel who recommended Fresnel for the Royal Society's Rumford Medal.
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and therefore did not interfere, so that no colors were produced (yet). But if they then passed through an
1682:, but not (yet) multiplied and divided by each other. The explanation was algebraic rather than geometric.
8728:, 1879, vol. 7, pp. 486–489. Contrary to this entry (p. 486), calcite and quartz were
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Bibliothèques et Médiathèque, "Inauguration à Broglie, le 14 Septembre 1884 du buste d'Augustin Fresnel",
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Fresnel's collected works (Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. xxix–xxx, note 4, and p. 6n).
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Moreover, by this time Fresnel had a new, simpler explanation of his equations on chromatic polarization.
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of light. M'sieur Fresnel will only be able to get to know this part of the optics by reading the work by
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7189:(in French). Accessed from Gallica – Bibliothèque nationale de France: Libraire Ancienne Honoré Champion.
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ability to turn tree-branches into toy bows and guns that worked far too well, earning himself the title
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253:
11640:, Ser. 2, vol. 10, pp. 288–305, March 1819; reprinted in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1,
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The first fixed lens with toroidal prisms was a first-order apparatus designed by the Scottish engineer
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countable objects. The conceptual gap between the wave theory and selectionism had become unbridgeable.
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J.Z. Buchwald, 2013, "Optics in the Nineteenth Century", in J.Z. Buchwald and R. Fox (eds.),
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Whittaker, 1910, p. 134; Darrigol, 2012, p. 213; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 773,
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532:, on 10 May 1788, was the second of four sons of the architect Jacques Fresnel and his wife Augustine,
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236:
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Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. xlii; Worrall, 1989, p. 136; Buchwald, 1989, pp. 171,
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6987:(London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1873; p. 167), which appeared in the same year as Maxwell's
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portions of "unpolarized" light will still interfere because their orientations will be synchronized.
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A. Fresnel, 1816, "Mémoire sur la diffraction de la lumière" ("Memoir on the diffraction of light"),
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Whittaker, 1910, pp. 182–183; Whewell, 1857, pp. 365–367; Darrigol, 2012, pp. 246–249.
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are the numbers of cycles taken by the extraordinary and ordinary waves to travel through the lamina.
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Darrigol, 2012, pp. 194–195 (ordinary intensity); Frankel, 1976, p. 148 (both intensities).
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Fresnel's next lens was a rotating apparatus with eight "bull's-eye" panels, made in annular arcs by
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refraction (which does not). In general, Huygens's common-tangent construction implies that rays are
466:
11430:"On the Double Refraction of Light in a Crystallized Medium, according to the Principles of Fresnel"
11275:), Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1885, pp. 140 (Ampère's acknowledgment), 141–147 (Fresnel's notes).
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Grattan-Guinness, 1990, pp. 896–897. Silliman, 1967, pp. 262–263; 2008, p. 170
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Buchwald, 1989, pp. 237–251; Frankel, 1976, pp. 165–168; Darrigol, 2012, pp. 208–209.
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the prize was decided (Worrall, 1989, pp. 145–146; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 236,
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polarizers is proportional to the squared cosine of the angle between their planes of polarization (
887:("Snell's law"), provided that the secondary waves traveled slower in denser media (those of higher
94:
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The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Frankel, 1976, pp. 149–150; Buchwald, 1989, pp. 99–103; Darrigol, 2012, pp. 195–196.
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1002:", and the colors of skylight reflected in soap bubbles), on the assumption that light consists of
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of Fresnel's uncle Léonor Mérimée (1757–1836), on the same wall as the Fresnel monument in Broglie
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Arago, 21 September 1821, in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 257–259; translated as
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206) proves the later date and explains the origin and propagation of the incorrect earlier date.
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5596:, with 36 votes to Fresnel's 20. But in May 1823, after another vacancy was left by the death of
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In the second installment of "Calcul des teintes" (June 1821), Fresnel supposed, by analogy with
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For the experimental testing of his calculations, Fresnel used red light with a wavelength of 638
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Arago, 1857, p. 405; Silliman, 2008, p. 166. Arago does not use quotation marks.
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2020:
932:(the supposed wave-bearing medium) near the earth was not disturbed by the motion of the earth.
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Levitt, 2013, p. 98; Silliman, 1967, p. 279; Arago, 1857, p. 470; Boutry, 1948,
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Treatises on Physical Astronomy, Light and Sound, contributed to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana
8016:"IX. On the laws which regulate the polarisation of light by reflexion from transparent bodies"
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for the case in which they are of equal magnitude and a quarter-cycle (±90°) out of phase, and
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846:: the corpuscles obviously moved very fast, so that their paths were very nearly straight. The
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Buchwald, 1989, pp. 186–198; Darrigol, 2012, pp. 205–206; Kipnis, 1991, p. 220.
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6977:, p. 26. The same description was retained in the "second edition", published under the title
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5073:, Fresnel was chosen to contribute the article on light. The resulting 137-page essay, titled
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vibration. In 1809, Malus further discovered that the intensity of light passing through
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548:
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Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. 247; Crew, 1900, p. 79; Levitt, 2013, p. 46.
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7109:'jeanelie' (author), "Augustine Charlotte Marie Louise Merimee" and "Louis Jacques Fresnel",
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Fresnel applied the same principles to the standard case of chromatic polarization, in which
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I do not know of any book that contains all the experiments that physicists are doing on the
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Monument to Augustin Fresnel on the facade of his birthplace at 2 Rue Augustin Fresnel,
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Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. lxxxvi–lxxxvii; Grattan-Guinness, 1990, p. 896.
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Silliman, 1967, p. 14; Arago, 1857, p. 403. Fresnel's solution was printed in the
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On 12 July 1815, as Fresnel was about to leave Paris, Arago left him a note on a new topic:
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of the crystal inexplicably depended on the direction of the (possibly subsequent) velocity
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Supplément à la traduction française de la cinquième édition du "Système de Chimie" par Th.
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Discours prononcé au nom de l'Académie des Sciences à l'inauguration du monument de Fresnel
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Whewell, 1857, pp. 482–483; Whittaker, 1910, p. 136; Darrigol, 2012, p. 223.
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Frankel, 1976, pp. 170–171; cf. Fresnel, 1827, tr. Hobson, pp. 243–244,
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9020:(for 1816–19), Hendaye, Basses Pyrénées: Imprimerie de l'Observatoire d'Abbadia, 1915.
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Isis; an International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
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That age was given by Arago in his elegy (Arago, 1857, p. 402) and widely propagated (
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component, Fresnel supposed that the interaction between the two media was analogous to an
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Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light
11820: to be confused with the earlier memoir with the same French title (Fresnel, 1816).
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Grattan-Guinness, 1990, pp. 891–892; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 371–379.
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Silliman, 1967, pp. 165–166; Buchwald, 1989, p. 137; Kipnis, 1991, pp. 178,
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which are none other than Biot's empirical formulae of 1812, except that Biot interpreted
1974:{\displaystyle S(x)=\!\int _{0}^{x}\!\sin {\big (}{\tfrac {1}{2}}\pi z^{2}{\big )}\,dz\,.}
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Whewell, 1857, pp. 340–341; the quoted paragraphs date from the 1st Ed. (1837).
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Nor was Fresnel the first to suggest replacing a convex lens with a series of concentric
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decomposed the transverse vibrations into two perpendicular components, now known as the
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so that the colors are complementary. Without the phase-inversion rule, there would be a
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micrometer at its focus, allowing more accurate measurements while requiring less light.
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in its consequences. The substances on which Mr. Savart made his experiments were
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6983:(London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857; p. 136), and in the
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The analogy between light waves and transverse waves in elastic solids does not predict
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658:. Religion took first place in the boys' home-schooling. In 1802, his mother said:
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Cross-section of a first-generation Fresnel lighthouse lens, with sloping mirrors
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Fresnel, in contrast, decided to introduce polarization into interference experiments.
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel (also called Augustin Jean or simply Augustin), born in Broglie,
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Report of the Fourth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
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Cf. Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 174–175; Buchwald, 1989, pp. 157–158.
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Levitt, 2013, pp. 26–27; Silliman, 2008, p. 166; Boutry, 1948, pp. 592,
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are the angles of incidence and refraction; these equations are known respectively as
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In mid 1815, on his way home to Mathieu to serve his suspension, Fresnel met Arago in
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and the thickness. Young similarly explained the colors of "striated surfaces" (e.g.,
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Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. 6n; Kipnis, 1991, p. 167; emphasis added.
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The Shadow of Enlightenment: Optical and Political Transparency in France, 1789–1848
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is the angle from the initial plane of polarization to the optic axis of the lamina,
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Fresnel's updated memoir was eventually published in the March 1816 issue of
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607:(the man of genius) from his accomplices, and a united crackdown from their elders.
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Levitt, 2013, p. 25; Arago, 1857, p. 402; Boutry, 1948, pp. 590–591.
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In Fresnel's collected works (1866–70), a paper is said to have been "presented" ("
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to the plane of polarization as defined by Malus. (On the ensuing controversy, see
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later used a similar argument to explain the colors in the scintillation of stars.
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9777:, 1820, pp. 12–16, including pp. 13–14 (sine law), 15–16 (dihedral law).
9476:
Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica
9374:
Buchwald, 1989, pp. 225–226; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 526–527,
9363:
Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica
7184:
5364:
5260:
4265:, which was to be sectioned by a plane in the same way. In general there would be
1134:
of the two rays emerging from a calcite crystal. It was Malus who coined the term
1023:
plates manifestly reflected also at the front surface. It was not until 1801 that
12384:
12335:
12293:
12265:
12051:
12047:
11932:
11793:, in Taylor, 1852, pp. 44–65. (Cited page numbers refer to the translation.)
11366:. Whittaker, 1910, p. 132; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, p. 438.
10532:
9927:
9365:, vol. 3 (issued February 1818), reprinted in Young, 1855, pp. 279–342.
8245:
7778:
Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences
6685:
6510:
6449:
6314:
6283:
6263:, compared the histories of physical astronomy and physical optics and concluded:
6252:
6219:
5597:
5410:
5349:
5249:
5019:
3301:
2039:
1705:
1490:
1465:
1426:
you have adopted. But what neither he nor anyone had seen before you is that the
1244:
In 1812, as Arago pursued further qualitative experiments and other commitments,
643:
509:
397:
190:
44:
Portrait of "Augustin Fresnel" from the frontispiece of his collected works, 1866
11468:
W.R. Hamilton, "Third supplement to an essay on the theory of systems of rays",
10649:
53; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. xcvii, and vol. 3, p. xxiv.
10602:
9891:
361–363; Buchwald, 1989, pp. 281–283. The derivation of the "wave surface"
5788:
5776:
5325:
proposed grinding such prisms as steps in a single piece of glass. In 1790, the
5159:
5155:
5089:
3820:
1311:
1122:
12211:), Princeton University, submitted 1967, accepted 1968; available from ProQuest
9675:
Jenkins & White, 1976, pp. 576–579 (§ 27.9, esp. Fig. 27M).
9014:
6459:
6439:
6390:
6150:
5765:
5496:
5397:
5305:
1: Cross-section of Buffon/Fresnel lens. 2: Cross-section of conventional
5237:
was published in installments in 1825 and 1828. The wave theory was adopted by
5223:
5219:
5085:
4220:
3951:
1675:
1496:
1404:
1170:
1147:
925:
883:
698:
462:
433:
159:
12401:
12205:
Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827) and the Establishment of the Wave Theory of Light
11767:
11229:
Boutry, 1948, pp. 603–604; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. i–vii.
10074:
Fresnel, 1827, tr. Hobson, pp. 320–322; Buchwald, 1989, p. 447.
8695:
601. Silliman (1967, p. 180) gives the starting date as 1 May 1818.
8376:
Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 48–49; Kipnis, 1991, pp. 176–178.
6129:—that is, the frequency-dependence of the speed of propagation, which enables
1146:
after its dependence on the refractive index was determined experimentally by
544:, where Augustine would spend 25 years as a widow, outliving two of her sons.
12417:
12390:
12159:
A Short Bright Flash: Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse
11727:
11445:
10619:
10197:
10148:
9995:
9950:
Buchwald, 1989, pp. 285–286; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, p. 396.
8157:
8039:
7959:
7701:
7627:
7434:
7270:
7266:
7186:
L'expédition scientifique et artistique de Mésopotamie et de Médie, 1851–1855
6925:
6857:
6525:
6464:
6399:
6348:
5710:
5669:
5633:
5629:
5588:
in April 1819, and in 1822 became one of the editors of the Société's
5477:
First-order rotating catadioptric Fresnel lens, dated 1870, displayed at the
5331:
5295:
5174:
5146:, that the equations in which Poisson put so much faith did not even predict
4954:
4295:
radius of the surface in any direction was the square root of the component,
1651:
1418:
1276:
1188:
921:
514:
485:
481:
470:
421:
420:, he accounted for the directions and polarizations of the refracted rays in
393:
259:
164:
129:
63:
12189:
The Principles of Physical Optics: An Historical and Philosophical Treatment
12180:(held at Edinburgh in 1834), London: J. Murray, 1835, pp. 295–413.
11844:
11651:
G.-A. Boutry, 1948, "Augustin Fresnel: His time, life and work, 1788–1827",
7410:
6940:, vol. 16 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 627–651
5504:
3332:
waves were exclusively transverse. And it was Young, not Fresnel, who first
1174:), whether the polarizers work by reflection or double refraction, and that
785:
as "an attack on civilization", Fresnel departed without leave, hastened to
12394:
12377:
11902:
11877:
11791:"Memoir upon the colours produced in homogeneous fluids by polarized light"
11770:, at p. 306 (original French) and p. 307 (English translation).
10634:, vol. 4 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 513–514
10189:
10140:
9878:
Literally "surface of the wave"—as in Hobson's translation of Fresnel 1827.
9851:
Buchwald, 1989, pp. 267–272; Grattan-Guinness, 1990, pp. 885–887.
8031:
7693:
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6479:
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reflected by amorphous thin plates of proportional, but lesser, thickness.
1187:
Malus died in February 1812, at the age of 36, shortly after receiving the
1050:
1015:
940:
837:
790:
655:
477:
416:
media. Then, by generalizing the direction-speed-polarization relation for
348:
and for pioneering the use of "stepped" lenses to extend the visibility of
345:
333:
169:
154:
10780:
Grattan-Guinness, 1990, pp. 914–915, citing Young, 1855, p. 399;
10667:
Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 3, pp. 5–14; on the date, see p. 6n.
10623:
10494:
10372:(with original page numbers and appended plates) in J.F.W. Herschel,
9986:
8358:
131–132; Darrigol, 2012, pp. 199–201; Kipnis, 1991, pp. 175–176.
8305:
Buchwald, 1989, pp. 122, 126; Silliman, 1967, pp. 147–149.
7596:"Equivalence of Huygens' Principle and Fermat's Principle in Ray Geometry"
1234:
12363:
8957:
Darrigol, 2012, p. 205; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. xlii.
8292:
Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. xxxi (micrometer, locksmith [
7487:
Boutry, 1948, p. 593; Arago, 1857, pp. 407–408; Fresnel, 1815a.
6279:
5649:
5500:
5028:
4231:, which had been used in chromatic-polarization experiments, is biaxial.
3974:
1447:
within rectangular shadows. He had not mentioned the curved paths of the
1140:
to describe this behavior, although the polarizing angle became known as
388:
134:
12248:
History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Time
12222:, Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, vol. 5, pp. 165–171. (The
12195:
12082:
11656:
11485:
11454:
11429:
8966:
Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. xlii; Worrall, 1989, p. 141.
7936:"Experimental investigations of double refraction from Huygens to Malus"
6370:
1532:
1505:
Replica of Young's two-source interference diagram (1807), with sources
1367:, the one by Newton, the English treatise by Jordan, and the memoirs of
935:
The outstanding strength of Huygens's theory was his explanation of the
824:
are shown in blue before refraction, and in green after refraction. For
11583:(June 1927), translated as "The centenary of Augustin Fresnel" in
8997:
Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. 237; Worrall, 1989, p. 140.
8810:, p. 339n, and in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. 247, note
8327:
Kipnis, 1991, p. 167; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 5–6.
7951:
7281:, vol. 11 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 209
6724:
A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts
6515:
6485:
6271:
5705:
5452:
5032:
5009:
3981:
3945:
reflection in a chromatic-polarization experiment. With the aid of his
1315:
1011:
978:
349:
11781: to be confused with the later "prize memoir" (Fresnel, 1818b).
11751:
10368:, vol. 4 (London, 1845; re-issued 1849), pp. 341–586;
10206:
10157:
8704:
Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. xcvi; Arago, 1857, p. 466.
8669:
Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. xxxv; Levitt, 2013, p. 44.
8385:
Frankel, 1976, p. 158; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. 9n.
8200:
Frankel, 1976, p. 176; cf. Silliman, 1967, pp. 142–143.
8048:
7776:
N. Kipnis, "Physical optics", in I. Grattan-Guinness (ed.),
7710:
7619:
5685:
Fresnel's grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, photographed in 2018
5380:). If the cross-section in every vertical plane through the lamp
5337:
Meanwhile, on 21 June 1819, Fresnel was "temporarily" seconded by the
3286:
1084:
11720:
International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology
7935:
5213:
5208:
5147:
5121:
mm circular aperture illuminated by red laser light. Image size: 17.3
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4262:
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between the two planes each of which contained the ray and one axis (
2723:
2692:
are the frequency-dependent terms and explain why the lamina must be
1136:
1007:
821:
809:
778:
regained its name and autonomy, but remained part of the institute.)
647:
579:
429:
384:
353:
321:
11893:
11868:
11585:
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
11256:
Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience
11027:(with link to full list of past winners), accessed 2 September 2017.
9522:
Buchwald, 1989, pp. 391–393; Whittaker, 1910, pp. 133–135.
7595:
7359:
Kneller, 1911, pp. 148–149n; cf. Arago, 1857, p. 470.
6115:
were due to different aether densities, not different elasticities.
2696:
in order to produce discernible colors: if the lamina is too thick,
1739:
1501:
717:
Nyons, France, 19th century, drawn by Alexandre Debelle (1805–1897)
694:
551:, became a lieutenant in the artillery, and was killed in action at
12027:; reprinted as "Second mémoire…" in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2,
11705:
A History of Optics: From Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
10389:
Buchwald, 1989, pp. 291–296; Darrigol, 2012, pp. 220–221,
10104:; Darrigol, 2012, chapter 6; Buchwald, 2013, pp. 460–464.
9157:
205; Darrigol, 2012, p. 206; Silliman, 1967, pp. 203–205.
9067:
of fringes; but, as Kipnis also notes, this issue was pursued only
8581:
Silliman, 1967, pp. 177–179; Darrigol, 2012, pp. 201–203.
8004:
Darrigol, 2012, pp. 191–192; Silliman, 1967, pp. 125–127.
7995:
Young, 1855, pp. 228–232; cf. Whewell, 1857, p. 329.
7426:
5426:
5248:
The economy of assumptions under the wave theory was emphasized by
2804:
sign in front of the last term in the second equation, so that the
1659:
1594:
The contribution from the "efficacious ray" was thought to be only
964:
948:
786:
731:
556:
529:
413:
383:
in quantitative terms, and supposing that simple colors consist of
360: and independently reinvented by Fresnel, is used in screen
39:
12313:
A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts
12296:, in D. Gooding, T. Pinch, and S. Schaffer (eds.),
12017:
Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France
11798:
Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France
11014:
polarization and was a "Foreign Member" of the Society; see text.)
9063:
of fringes, whereas Fresnel's measurements had concerned only the
5520:
in 1854, and marked the completion of Augustin Fresnel's original
3988:
optic axes. The two classes of minerals naturally become known as
959:
between successive positions of the wavefront, in accordance with
840:
and accepted by nearly all of Fresnel's seniors, easily explained
727:
320:(10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and
8988:
1; Grattan-Guinness, 1990, p. 867; Levitt, 2013, p. 47.
7478:
Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, p. 819; emphasis in original.
6929:
6313:
nature of light. So it was that, as late as 1927, the astronomer
6298:
5810:
in 1820, Ampère initially supposed that the field of a permanent
5568:
5564:
5401:
4012:
2127:
Interference of polarized light, chromatic polarization (1816–21)
2009:
944:
861:
706:
575:
417:
279:
12042:
H. de Sénarmont, E. Verdet, and L. Fresnel), 1866–70,
11883:
A. Fresnel, 1821b, "Note sur les remarques de M. Biot...",
11762:, vol. 19, no. 2 (June 2006), pp. 295–307,
10556:
9496:
Buchwald, 1989, pp. 390–391; Fresnel, 1821a, §§ 20–22.
8541:
Kipnis, 1991, pp. 212–214; Frankel, 1976, pp. 159–160,
8438:
Newton, 1730, p. 321, Fig. 1, where the straight rays
6238:, surveyed previous knowledge of double refraction and declared:
6218:, who established that light waves are electromagnetic. Whereas
5245:
in the 1830s, and then began to find favor in German textbooks.
4988:
As early as 1822, Fresnel discussed his perpendicular axes with
3880:
Cross-section of a Fresnel rhomb (blue) with graphs showing the
2060:
brightly as the exterior. This seems to have been intended as a
754:. Though I break my head, I cannot guess what that is.
12367:
12350:
11888:
11863:
11697:
The Wave Theory of Light: Memoirs by Huygens, Young and Fresnel
11655:, vol. 36, no. 144 (October 1948), pp. 587–604;
11084:
Levitt, 2013, pp. 75–76; Silliman, 1967, pp. 276–277.
10712:
10590:
Dictionary of Machines, Mechanics, Engine-work, and Engineering
9557:
Whittaker, 1910, pp. 177–179; Buchwald, 2013, p. 467.
6505:
6317:
declared Fresnel to be "the dominant figure in optics."
6302:
5811:
5753:
5448:
5393:
5301:
4228:
3830:
shown), these are a quarter-cycle out of phase with each other.
3779:, Fresnel even accounted for the different phase shifts of the
2066:. Arago, undeterred, assembled an experiment with an obstacle 2
1667:
1461:
1421:
as the other reviewer). On 8 November, Arago wrote to Fresnel:
1327:(musings) into an essay and submitted it via Léonor Mérimée to
1249:
1224:
672:
325:
179:
11743:, vol. 18, no. 3 (September 1974), pp. 223–245.
11629:
should intersect the refractive surface (assumed flat); then,
11346:
Darrigol, 2012, p. 246; Buchwald, 1989, pp. 307–308;
10422:"On the diffraction of an object-glass with circular aperture"
9690:
9361:
T. Young, "Chromatics" (written Sep.– Oct. 1817),
9101:
Buchwald, 1989, pp. 183–184; Darrigol, 2012, p. 205.
8554:
Cf. Young, 1807, vol. 1, p. 777 & Fig. 267.
6624:
6578:
5604:
Fresnel's election was unanimous. In 1824, Fresnel was made a
3855:
color (chromatic polarization), but not that it could vary in
1443:
fringes, and had described the hyperbolic fringes that appear
982:
Altered colors of skylight reflected in a soap bubble, due to
12174:"Report on the progress and present state of physical optics"
9175:
Darrigol, 2012, p. 207; Frankel, 1976, pp. 163–164,
8179:
Frankel, 1976, pp. 151–152; Darrigol, 2012, p. 196.
8111:
Buchwald, 1989, pp. 79–88; Levitt, 2009, pp. 33–54.
7823:, vol. 92 (1802), pp. 12–48, read 12 November 1801.
5543:. Still finer steps can be found in low-cost plastic "sheet"
4241:
4008:
4007:
In 1813, Brewster observed the simple concentric pattern in "
3821:
Circular and elliptical polarization, optical rotation (1822)
3439:
3281:
1607:
slit to ensure that the light falling on the double slit was
1335:
1219:(not the hue) of the colors. This phenomenon became known as
869:
723:
7253:
Levitt, 2013, pp. 25–26; Silliman, 1967, pp. 9–11.
6699:
dangerous to eyesight and should not be repeated as written.
6193:
5647: was dedicated on 14 September 1884 with a speech by
5177:, who was working on a book-length article on light for the
3834:
In a memoir dated 9 December 1822, Fresnel coined the terms
11808:; reprinted (with notes) in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1,
11488:(author's introduction dated June 1833; volume started 1831
10288:
Printed in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 459–464.
9824:
Printed in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 261–308.
9775:
Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomathique de Paris
9038:
Worrall, 1989, pp. 135–138; Kipnis, 1991, p. 220.
8766:
Printed in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 171–181.
8412:
Young, 1807, vol. 1, p. 787 & Figs. 442,
8089:
Levitt, 2009, p. 37; Darrigol, 2012, pp. 193–194,
7742:
Darrigol, 2012, pp. 98–100; Newton, 1730, p. 281.
6661:
6652:
6615:
6609:
6566:
6560:
6297:, supposed that the energy of light waves was divided into
6232:
Report on the progress and present state of physical optics
6145:
In the 1830s, Fresnel's suggestion was taken up by Cauchy,
5653:, Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Sciences. "
5405:
5384:
is the same, the light is spread evenly around the horizon.
5042:
4019:&c." The same pattern was later observed in calcite by
4016:
2097:
2070:
mm in diameter—and there, in the center of the shadow, was
1199:
971:
refraction can be separately derived from that premise, as
782:
750:
had read to the Institute a very interesting memoir on the
693:
Fresnel was initially posted to the western département of
615:
552:
11722:, vol. 79, no. 2 (July 2009), pp. 183–244;
11646:"On the action of rays of polarized light upon each other"
10920:
A. Finstad, "New developments in audio-visual materials",
7980:
Mémoires de Physique et de Chimie, de la Société d'Arcueil
7832:
Darrigol, 2012, pp. 101–102; Newton, 1730, Book
7222:
Levitt, 2013, pp. 24–25; Buchwald, 1989, p. 111.
6920:
6918:
6916:
6914:
5414:
on 20 August 1822, was witnessed by the commission—and by
4113:{\displaystyle v_{o}^{2\!}-v_{e}^{2}=k\sin ^{2}\theta \,,}
801:
697:. There, in 1811, he anticipated what became known as the
387:
waves, Fresnel gave the first satisfactory explanation of
12408:
from the original on 22 November 2021 – via YouTube
12364:
List of English translations of works by Augustin Fresnel
11735:
11575:
E.M. Antoniadi, "Le centenaire d'Augustin Fresnel",
10862:"Appareil catadioptrique, Appareil du canal Saint-Martin"
10178:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
10129:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
10047:
447, citing Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, p. 776n).
9765:
8946:
Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
8394:
Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. 38; italics added.
8062:
Darrigol, 2012, p. 192; Silliman, 1967, p. 128.
8020:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
7682:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
6301:, which were eventually identified with particles called
5222:, whose objections included the difficulty of explaining
4234:
4215:
of the sines of the angles from the ray to the two axes (
2120:, was pioneered by Malus and diligently pursued by Biot.
555:, Spain. The third, Léonor, followed Augustin into civil
11750:, vol. 6, no. 2 (May 1976), pp. 141–184;
11333:
Darrigol, 2012, p. 212; Fresnel, 1821a, §§ 14,
11042:, Broglie, 14 September 1884; accessed 6 September 2017.
8678:
Silliman, 2008, p. 166; Frankel, 1976, p. 159.
8519:
Darrigol, 2012, p. 201; Frankel, 1976, p. 159.
7986:, quoted in translation by Silliman, 1967, p. 131).
7261:
7259:
3912:
component is advanced by 1/8 of a cycle relative to the
679:
in the winter of 1819–20. The article on Fresnel in the
12298:
The Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural Sciences
11789:; translated by E. Ronalds & H. Lloyd as
10907:, U.S. Lighthouse Society, accessed 1 March 2021;
10612:
6911:
5321:
prisms, to reduce weight and absorption. In 1748,
3715:{\displaystyle r_{p}={\frac {\tan(i-r)}{\tan(i+r)}}\,,}
3384:" ("calculation of the tints…"), serialized in Arago's
3026:{\displaystyle \!I_{o}=U\cos ^{2}s+A\cos ^{2}(2i-s)\,,}
1267:
triggered a notorious falling-out between the two men.
12015:
A. Fresnel, 1827, "Mémoire sur la double réfraction",
9487:
Buchwald, 1989, pp. 388–390; Fresnel, 1821a, §18.
8740:
277 (written 1814), and Lloyd, 1834, pp. 376–377.
7784:
JHU Press, 2003, vol. 2, pp. 1143–1152.
5436:
In May 1824, Fresnel was promoted to secretary of the
3975:
Background: Uniaxial and biaxial crystals; Biot's laws
3871:
2907:
2859:
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1828:
920:
of the earth across the line of sight). Identified by
582:
of painting. He became the Permanent Secretary of the
12373:
12080:(Leiden: Van der Aa), translated by S.P. Thompson as
12010:"Memoir upon a new system of lighthouse illumination"
11941:, Paris: Chez Méquignon-Marvis, 1822, pp. 1–137,
7256:
6718:"Young's book", which Fresnel distinguished from the
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3631:{\displaystyle r_{s}=-{\frac {\sin(i-r)}{\sin(i+r)}}}
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3200:
3180:
3155:
3135:
3117:{\displaystyle I_{e}=U\sin ^{2}s+A\sin ^{2}(2i-s)\,,}
3040:
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2638:
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2416:
2215:
1882:
1781:
11814:"Fresnel's prize memoir on the diffraction of light"
11246:
11244:
10605:, U.S. Lighthouse Society, accessed 22 August 2017;
10559:, U.S. Lighthouse Society, accessed 12 August 2017;
10497:, U.S. Lighthouse Society, accessed 12 August 2017;
9474:
in "Refraction, double, and polarisation of light",
8716:
8714:
8712:
8710:
8612:
Levitt, 2013, p. 43; Boutry, 1948, p. 599.
8252:
New Observations concerning the Inflections of Light
6800:, meaning perpendicular (to the plane of incidence).
6664:
6649:
6618:
6606:
6569:
6557:
6324:
6278:
and Brewster, grouping them together, correspond to
6133:
to produce spectra and causes lenses to suffer from
3317:
idea in an article published in a supplement to the
2051:
cm behind, in sunlight passing through a pinhole 153
1670:
representation, except that the "forces" were plane
1536:
Fresnel's double mirror (1816). The mirror segments
1060:
Neither Newton nor Huygens satisfactorily explained
356:(purely refractive) stepped lens, first proposed by
11617:. (On the translator's identity, see pp. 425n,
11423:
11421:
11172:
1818d; Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. 655n.
10426:
Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
9953:
9613:[Quarterly] Journal of Science and the Arts
9274:
Buchwald, 1989, p. 97; Frankel, 1976, p. 148.
8752:
8750:
8748:
8746:
8279:
8277:
6655:
6600:
6551:
5492:, but he did not live to see a full-sized version.
5271:
4179:were the ordinary and extraordinary ray velocities
3904:) on the horizontal axis. If the incoming light is
3638: and
3340:light; that achievement was to be Fresnel's alone.
2019:The judging committee comprised Laplace, Biot, and
1371:and Young, which are part of the collection of the
796:
404:, the mechanism of chromatic polarization, and the
8908:, vol. 89 (September 1819), pp. 161–186.
7584:Huygens, 1690, tr. Thompson, pp. 52–105.
6242:made since the discovery of universal gravitation.
6236:British Association for the Advancement of Science
6084:
6029:
6009:
5972:
5945:
5894:
5874:
5000:Photoelasticity, multiple-prism experiments (1822)
4918:
4760:
4726:
4648:
4195:
4171:
4144:
4112:
3759:
3739:
3714:
3630:
3483:, and obtained a formula for what we now call the
3266:
3236:
3209:
3186:
3161:
3141:
3116:
3025:
2924:
2872:
2816:
2792:
2769:
2714:
2684:
2664:
2644:
2621:
2596:
2395:
1973:
1868:
1497:"Efficacious ray", double-mirror experiment (1816)
1223:. Replacing the mica with a much thicker plate of
465:) accounted for the change in polarization due to
12106:History of the Principle of Interference of Light
11947:Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and Art
11503:"The lighting systems of the Cordouan Lighthouse"
11352:Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and Art
11241:
10894:Levitt, 2013, pp. 108–110, 113–116, 122–123.
10537:, Paris: Chez Buisson, 1790, pp. 11–12.
10436:(1835), pp. 283–291 (read 24 November 1834).
10065:Fresnel, 1827, tr. Hobson, pp. 281–285.
10056:Fresnel, 1827, tr. Hobson, pp. 266–273.
9792:Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and Art
9567:
9565:
9563:
9508:
9506:
9504:
9502:
9414:Buchwald, 1989, p. 212; Fresnel, 1821a, §10.
8707:
8119:
8117:
7549:Huygens, 1690, tr. Thompson, pp. 22–38.
7531:Huygens, 1690, tr. Thompson, pp. 20–21.
5856:
5187:was published in installments from 1827 to 1829.
4704:
4690:
4569:
4508:
4447:
4386:
4362:
4063:
3415:. That displacement might be constrained but was
2949:
2925:{\displaystyle A=\sin ^{2}{\tfrac {\phi }{2}}\,,}
1914:
1898:
1813:
1797:
1637:
781:In March 1815, perceiving Napoleon's return from
12415:
11418:
11102:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 647–660.
10029:
10027:
9908:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 369–442.
9678:
9405:Buchwald, 1989, p. 227; Fresnel, 1821a, §1.
9005:
9003:
8984:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. 229, note
8975:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 229–246.
8917:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 236–237.
8743:
8572:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 129–170.
8274:
8126:"The battle between Arago and Biot over Fresnel"
7929:
7927:
7130:
7128:
6742:, which includes the Bakerian lectures from the
6259:(1837, 1847, and 1857), at the end of Book
5065:For the supplement to Riffault's translation of
4727:{\displaystyle \,r^{2}=x^{2\!}+y^{2\!}+z^{2},\,}
3510:.) The technology of the time did not allow the
3459:of incidence, respectively; in other words, the
2729:From these equations it is easily verified that
12274:, London: Longmans, Green, & Co., chapters
12250:, 3rd Ed., London: J.W. Parker & Son,
12218:R.H. Silliman, 2008, "Fresnel, Augustin Jean",
12046:(3 volumes), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale;
11598:
11565:
11017:
10932:
10930:
10525:
10402:Fresnel, 1822a; Kipnis, 1991, pp. 227–228.
10358:
10116:
8784:Buchwald, 1989, p. 167; 2013, p. 454.
8196:
8194:
7821:Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
7064:
7062:
6980:Elementary Treatise on the Wave-theory of Light
3550:polarizations are most succinctly expressed as
3498:the reflectivity was zero at the Brewster angle
3419:static, and rays were geometric constructions,
3396:for direct light as well as for polarized light
1342:"), and directed to classical works on optics.
540:, and in 1794 to Jacques's home town of
11462:
11375:Fresnel, 1827, tr. Hobson, pp. 277n,
10987:List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660–2007
10749:
10747:
10578:
10571:
10569:
10518:
10516:
10214:
10165:
9960:Lunney, James G.; Weaire, Denis (1 May 2006).
9601:
9560:
9499:
9357:
9355:
8114:
8007:
7772:
7770:
5290:cm thick at the center, were installed at the
4277:wavefront—which, for an extraordinary ray, is
3900:to the plane of incidence and parallel to the
2873:{\displaystyle U=\cos ^{2}{\tfrac {\phi }{2}}}
622:. Graduating in 1806, he then enrolled at the
536:Mérimée. The family moved twice—in 1789/90 to
328:led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the
19:"Fresnel" redirects here. For other uses, see
12187:J.S. Anderson & A.F.A. Young),
12063:Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800–1840
11681:The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics
11293:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 768n,
11269:Collection de Mémoires relatifs à la Physique
11261:
10797:Cf. Elton, 2009, p. 198, Figure 12.
10692:
10275:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 261n,
10024:
9920:
9636:
9615:, vol. 2, no. 3, 1817, p. 213.
9118:232–233; Grattan-Guinness, 1990, p. 870.
9000:
8687:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. xxxv,
8256:The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
7924:
7811:
7809:
7807:
7805:
7803:
7733:Huygens, 1690, tr. Thompson, p. 17.
7498:"History of the French Académie des sciences"
7490:
7399:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. xcvii.
7378:
7376:
7374:
7125:
7003:
7001:
6999:
6997:
5818:. Fresnel suggested instead that there was a
4587:
4556:
4526:
4495:
4465:
4434:
4414:
4339:
1955:
1923:
1854:
1822:
899:Foucault's measurements of the speed of light
875:Huygens's theory neatly explained the law of
352:, saving countless lives at sea. The simpler
12332:Miscellaneous Works of the late Thomas Young
11388:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. xcvi.
11137:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, p. 800n.
11002:G.E. Rines (ed.), "Fresnel, Augustin Jean",
10979:
10927:
10551:
10549:
10547:
10545:
10543:
9959:
9887:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 2, pp. 340,
9029:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, p. 230n.
8938:
8283:Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, pp. 6–7.
8191:
7669:
7587:
7059:
6959:
6957:
6730:, the relevant illustrations are Plate
5531:Close-up view of a thin plastic Fresnel lens
3892:of incidence) on the vertical axis, vs. the
3433:
2937:then Fresnel's formulae can be rewritten as
1472:, head of the École des Ponts, who wrote to
1439:pattern, corresponding roughly to Fresnel's
12220:Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
11611:Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
11434:The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy
11030:
10996:
10744:
10566:
10513:
10083:Grattan-Guinness, 1990, pp. 1003–1009,
9757:Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences…
9609:"On a new species of moveable polarization"
9462:only; and it is only to solids that such a
9352:
8804:Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences…
8230:
7767:
7402:
7199:: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
7102:
7100:
7098:
7044:
7042:
7040:
6759:290). Kipnis (1991, pp. 202–203,
5516:beams—also of first order—was installed at
5309:of equivalent power. (Buffon's version was
4287:from which he deduced Biot's dihedral law.
988:(formerly called "thin-plate" interference)
764:had taken over the functions of the French
428:class (those for which Huygens's secondary
11914:"Letter to Arago on biaxial birefringence"
11427:
11054:
10724:Fresnel, 1822b, tr. Tag, pp. 13,
10487:
10414:
9745:
9666:Fresnel, 1818a, especially pp. 47–49.
8594:144–145; Silliman, 1967, pp. 176–177.
7800:
7371:
6994:
5748:
5372:above and below the refractive panel
4974:
3282:Breakthrough: Pure transverse waves (1821)
2726:) will not be able to resolve the cycles.
688:
547:The first son, Louis, was admitted to the
38:
12494:Members of the French Academy of Sciences
11892:
11867:
11530:
11495:
11453:
10595:
10540:
10205:
10156:
9985:
8047:
7709:
7368:Grattan-Guinness, 1990, pp. 914–915.
6954:
6048:
6006:
5987:
5909:
5012:, caused by stress-induced birefringence.
4912:
4908:
4904:
4757:
4741:
4723:
4668:
4642:
4638:
4106:
3708:
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2766:
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2590:
2554:
2496:
2446:
2389:
2353:
2295:
2245:
1967:
1960:
1859:
1678:; they could be added, and multiplied by
738:" to his brother Léonor, saying in part:
412:at the interface between two transparent
12404:, École polytechnique, 23 January 2019,
12215:(missing the first page of the preface).
12135:, Freiburg im Breisgau: B. Herder,
11816:, in Crew, 1900, pp. 81–144.
10618:
10251:
10171:
10122:
9962:"The ins and outs of conical refraction"
9769:], printed 1820), pp. 177–384;
8123:
8013:
7933:
7593:
7303:Correspondance sur l'École polytechnique
7265:
7095:
7084:
7082:
7037:
7026:
7024:
6924:
6856:
6192:
5752:
5680:
5639:A monument to Fresnel at his birthplace
5554:
5526:
5472:
5429:for the winter, and then reassembled at
5363:
5300:
5108:
5003:
3875:
3824:
3285:
3217:and therefore Fresnel's expressions for
2098:Background: Emissionism and selectionism
2038:
2008:
1738:
1704:
1531:
1500:
1310:
1255:
1233:
1150:in 1815. Malus also introduced the term
1121:
1083:
1049:
977:
928:noted in 1746—tacitly assuming that the
815:
711:
508:
12093:, 4th Ed., New York: McGraw-Hill,
11470:Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy
11168:217n; Buchwald, 1989, p. 461, ref.
10897:
9684:For illustrations see J.M. Derochette,
7070:"Monument à Augustin Fresnel – Broglie"
5632:. In 1827 he was awarded the society's
5443:In the same year he designed the first
1350:
802:Historical context: From Newton to Biot
12416:
12330:T. Young (ed. G. Peacock), 1855,
10854:
10592:, 1861, vol. 2, pp. 606–618.
7675:
7408:
7182:
6896:Webster's New World College Dictionary
5563:(1854), formerly at the lighthouse of
4235:First memoir and supplements (1821–22)
3542:. The reflection coefficients for the
3451:components, which are parallel to the
1468:. At this point Arago interceded with
637:
624:École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
12434:19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
11804:(for 1821 & 1822, printed 1826),
11315:Cf. Darrigol, 2012, pp. 258–260.
10954:Grattan-Guinness, 1990, pp. 861,
9932:, Cambridge: T. Stevenson, 1842.
9436:cf. Buchwald, 1989, p. 228.
8720:G. Ripley and C.A. Dana (eds.),
7940:Archive for History of Exact Sciences
7178:
7176:
7079:
7021:
6989:Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
6684:
6176:
5814:was due to a macroscopic circulating
5659:72 names embossed on the Eiffel Tower
5425:km away. The apparatus was stored at
3775:. By allowing the coefficients to be
12464:Foreign members of the Royal Society
12044:Oeuvres complètes d'Augustin Fresnel
12031:; translated by A.W. Hobson as
11271:, vol. 2 (being Part 1 of
11211:Grattan-Guinness, 1990, p. 861.
10885:202; Levitt, 2013, pp. 104–105.
10788:470; Boutry, 1948, pp. 601–602.
10315:Grattan-Guinness, 1990, p. 898.
10257:Grattan-Guinness, 1990, p. 884.
10172:Brewster, David (31 December 1816).
10123:Brewster, David (31 December 1815).
9729:Grattan-Guinness, 1990, p. 885.
9574:Bulletin de la Société philomathique
9423:Fresnel, 1821a, §10; emphasis added.
8014:Brewster, David (31 December 1815).
7934:Buchwald, Jed Z. (1 December 1980).
7817:"On the Theory of Light and Colours"
7183:Pillet, Maurice (1881–1964) (1922).
6969:, Dublin: Milliken, 1841, Part
6966:Lectures on the Wave-theory of Light
6532:
6247:Lectures on the Wave-theory of Light
6041:velocity of the internal aether was
5676:
5008:Chromatic polarization in a plastic
3969:
2047:mm-diameter obstacle on a screen 183
1658:, and then (from May 1819) with the
375:'s principle of secondary waves and
16:French optical physicist (1788–1827)
12089:F.A. Jenkins and H.E. White, 1976,
11931:), in J. Riffault (ed.),
11908:A. Fresnel, 1821c, Letter to D.F.J.
11350:Fresnel, 1822a, tr. Young, in
11073:Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
10534:Éloge de M. le Comte de Buffon
9790:Fresnel, 1822a, tr. Young, in
9686:"Conoscopy of biaxial minerals (1)"
9301:Fresnel, 1821b, §1 & footnotes.
8416:445; Young, 1855, pp. 180–181,
7390:, 1907–12, vol. 6 (1909).
6157:for a variety of transparent media
5462:Also in 1825, Fresnel unveiled the
4181:according to the corpuscular theory
3872:Total internal reflection (1817–23)
3475:to the plane of incidence. For the
476:Fresnel had a lifelong battle with
13:
12191:, London: Methuen & Co., 1926.
12065:, Basel: Birkhäuser, vol. 2,
11837:Nineteenth-Century Aether Theories
11648:, in Crew, 1900, pp. 145–155.
10462:227; Darrigol, 2012, pp. 223,
8882:183; Levitt, 2013, pp. 45–46.
7676:Newton, Isaac (18 November 1672).
7173:
7016:Guide National des Maisons Natales
5851:
650:sect, characterized by an extreme
610:In 1801, Augustin was sent to the
566:Madame Fresnel's younger brother,
400:, Fresnel explained the nature of
14:
12515:
12444:Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
12343:
12229:lacks the diagram and equations.)
11250:A.K.T. Assis and J.P.M.C. Chaib,
10603:"Chronology of Lighthouse Events"
10445:Darrigol, 2012, pp. 222–223,
10324:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 289–390.
10017:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 286–287,
9869:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 279–280.
9860:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 274–279.
9707:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 254–255,
9585:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 230–232,
9241:is an abbreviation for Fresnel's
8860:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 179–182.
8842:Darrigol, 2012, pp. 204–205.
8691:xcvi; Boutry, 1948, pp. 599,
8590:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 134–135,
8403:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 137–139.
7849:Darrigol, 2012, pp. 177–179.
7571:Darrigol, 2012, pp. 129–130,
6908:Darrigol, 2012, pp. 220–223.
6864:(3rd ed.), Pearson Longman,
6796:originally comes from the German
6257:History of the Inductive Sciences
5254:History of the Inductive Sciences
2770:{\displaystyle \,I_{o}+I_{e}=1\,}
1248:reworked the same ground using a
1198:reported that if a thin plate of
726:, in the southern département of
12454:École des Ponts ParisTech alumni
12374:United States Lighthouse Society
12349:
11993:; vol. 26 (Jan.– Jun.
11981:; vol. 25 (Jul.– Dec.
11973:; vol. 24 (Jan.– Jun.
11961:; vol. 23 (Jul.– Dec.
11949:, vol. 22 (Jan.– Jun.
11885:Annales de Chimie et de Physique
11860:Annales de Chimie et de Physique
11825:Annales de Chimie et de Physique
11775:Annales de Chimie et de Physique
11638:Annales de Chimie et de Physique
11562:Whewell, 1857, pp. 370–371.
11556:
11547:
11536:James Clerk Maxwell Foundation,
11521:
11512:
11409:
11400:
11391:
11382:
11369:
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11309:
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11175:
11158:
11149:
11140:
11131:
11114:
11105:
11096:
11087:
11078:
11045:
11006:, 1918–20, vol. 12 (1919),
10970:
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10948:
10939:
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10661:
10652:
10639:
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10478:
10469:
10452:
10439:
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10383:
10355:Frankel, 1976, pp. 173–174.
10349:
10340:
10327:
10318:
10309:
10300:
10291:
10282:
10269:
10260:
10242:
10233:
10230:Whewell, 1857, pp. 355–356.
10224:
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10068:
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10011:
10002:
9944:
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9872:
9863:
9854:
9845:
9836:
9827:
9818:
9809:
9780:
9732:
9723:
9720:Cf. Buchwald, 1989, p. 269.
9714:
9701:
9669:
9660:
9646:
9627:
9618:
9598:Cf. Buchwald, 1989, p. 232.
9592:
9579:
9551:
9538:
9525:
9516:
9490:
9481:
9448:
9445:Cf. Buchwald, 1989, p. 230.
9439:
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9417:
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9399:
9390:
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9144:103–104; 2013, pp. 448–449.
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9023:
8991:
8978:
8969:
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8929:
8926:Worrall, 1989, pp. 139–140.
8920:
8911:
8894:
8885:
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8845:
8836:
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8370:
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8348:
8339:
8330:
8321:
8308:
7088:J.H. Favre, "Augustin Fresnel",
6862:Longman Pronunciation Dictionary
6820:
6803:
6786:
6776:
6766:
6749:
6712:
6642:
6596:
6547:
6383:
6369:
6355:
6341:
6327:
6017:, was dragged along at velocity
5606:chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
5356:and in one piece, Fresnel's was
5272:Lighthouses and the Fresnel lens
5173:In 1826, the British astronomer
4282:plane as above, would yield the
3496:component, which predicted that
2014:Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840)
1486:Annales de Chimie et de Physique
1340:il enfonçait des portes ouvertes
1295:oscillation) of the corpuscles.
797:Contributions to physical optics
722:About 1812, Fresnel was sent to
578:who turned his attention to the
12243:, London: Taylor & Francis.
12008:; translated by T. Tag as
11668:, University of Chicago Press,
11379:331n; Lloyd, 1834, p. 316.
11273:Mémoires sur l'électrodynamique
10266:Cf. Frankel, 1976, p. 169.
9929:The Theory of Double Refraction
9136:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 50–51,
9110:Kipnis, 1991, pp. 219–220,
8935:Cf. Worrall, 1989, p. 141.
8471:Kipnis, 1991, pp. 204–205.
8299:
8286:
8265:
8227:Boutry, 1948, pp. 594–595.
8221:
8212:
8203:
8182:
8173:
8164:
8105:
8096:
8083:
8074:
8065:
8056:
7998:
7989:
7967:
7915:
7906:
7903:Newton, 1730, pp. 373–374.
7897:
7894:Newton, 1730, pp. 358–361.
7888:
7879:
7870:
7861:
7852:
7843:
7826:
7787:
7754:
7745:
7736:
7727:
7724:Darrigol, 2012, pp. 53–56.
7718:
7660:
7657:Darrigol, 2012, pp. 62–64.
7651:
7638:
7578:
7565:
7558:Darrigol, 2012, pp. 93–94,
7552:
7543:
7534:
7525:
7516:
7507:
7481:
7472:
7469:Boutry, 1948, pp. 593–594.
7463:
7449:
7393:
7362:
7353:
7344:
7335:
7325:
7312:
7305:, No. 4 (June–July 1805),
7295:
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7207:
7164:
7155:
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7137:
7116:
6702:
6692:
6255:, in all three editions of his
5642:
5507:. The first fully catadioptric
2092:
1089:Étienne-Louis Malus (1775–1812)
705:, except that recycling of the
12439:19th-century French physicists
12402:"Episode 3 – Augustin Fresnel"
12391:Works by Augustin-Jean Fresnel
12300:, Cambridge University Press,
12161:, New York: W.W. Norton,
11538:"Who was James Clerk Maxwell?"
11415:Lloyd, 1834, pp. 387–388.
11220:Whittaker, 1910, p. 125n.
10976:Young, 1855, pp. 402–403.
10905:"American-Made Fresnel Lenses"
10824:Elton, 2009, pp. 198–199.
10815:Elton, 2009, pp. 197–198.
10698:D. Gombert, photograph of the
10376:, London and Glasgow: R.
10100:Whittaker, 1910, chapter
9085:
9059:) was that they concerned the
8757:vol. 1, pp. 487–508.
8621:Arago, 1857, pp. 404–405.
8260:vol. 34, pp. 436–443
8188:Young, 1855, pp. 269–272.
8071:Young, 1855, pp. 249–250.
7867:Young, 1855, pp. 179–181.
7644:Young, 1855, pp. 225–226,
7594:de Witte, A. J. (1 May 1959).
7272:"Fresnel, Augustin Jean"
6945:
6902:
6878:
6850:
6545:English pronunciation varies:
6539:
6085:{\displaystyle \,v(1-1/n^{2})}
6079:
6052:
5980:, of which the excess, namely
5946:{\displaystyle \,v(1-1/n^{2})}
5940:
5913:
5857:Aether drag and aether density
5585:Société Philomathique de Paris
3702:
3690:
3679:
3667:
3622:
3610:
3599:
3587:
3291:André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836)
3107:
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3016:
3001:
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2524:
2510:
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2460:
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2309:
2273:
2259:
1892:
1886:
1791:
1785:
1638:Prize memoir (1818) and sequel
1345:
1261:Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862)
1191:for his work on polarization.
568:Jean François "Léonor" Mérimée
1:
12484:Tuberculosis deaths in France
12033:"Memoir on double refraction"
11472:, vol. 17, pp. v–x,
11194:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 222,
11185:Taylor, 1852, pp. 44–65.
10860:Musée national de la Marine,
10851:Levitt, 2013, pp. 79–80.
10833:Levitt, 2013, pp. 82–84.
10741:Levitt, 2013, pp. 72–76.
10658:Levitt, 2013, pp. 49–50.
9738:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 269,
9652:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 223,
9215:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 216,
9153:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 203,
8948:, New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
8354:Buchwald, 1989, pp. 119,
7978:found in the works of Malus (
6838:
6516:Poisson's /Arago's spot
6245:In 1841, Lloyd published his
6118:
6010:{\displaystyle \,n^{2}{-}1\,}
5834:
5226:effects and (in his opinion)
4980:refraction, published in the
2204:respectively proportional to
1710:Normalized Fresnel integrals
1634:idea what I'm doing."
589:
504:
12315:(2 volumes), London: J.
11739:] competition of 1808",
11599:General and cited references
11406:Darrigol, 2012, p. 252.
11284:Buchwald, 1989, p. 116.
11258:"), Montreal: Apeiron, 2015.
11238:Silliman, 2008, p. 171.
11164:Kipnis, 1991, pp. 207n,
11146:Buchwald, 1989, p. 289.
11075:, accessed 19 December 2017.
10411:Buchwald, 1989, p. 296.
10380:Griffin & Co. (undated).
10297:Buchwald, 1989, p. 288.
9815:Buchwald, 1989, p. 260.
9633:Darrigol, 2012, p. 207.
9576:for 1822, pp. 191–198).
9387:Buchwald, 1989, p. 226.
9206:Buchwald, 1989, p. 386.
9188:Darrigol, 2012, p. 206.
8528:Kipnis, 1991, pp. 166n,
8367:Darrigol, 2012, p. 201.
8345:Darrigol, 2012, p. 199.
7876:Darrigol, 2012, p. 187.
7500:, accessed 8 December 2017;
7409:Reilly, D. (December 1951).
7134:Silliman, 2008, p. 166.
6951:Darrigol, 2012, p. 205.
6843:
6270:as standing in the place of
5739:inscription on his headstone
5673:were later named after him.
5559:Bust of Augustin Fresnel by
5537:Brooklyn Flint-Glass Company
5060:
4943:axes, and the latter as the
3467:components are respectively
3351:But if he could account for
2160:of the constituent waves of
734:'s defeat, Fresnel wrote a "
632:ingénieur ordinaire aspirant
628:Corps des Ponts et Chaussées
597:
364:and in condenser lenses for
7:
12061:I. Grattan-Guinness, 1990,
11505:, accessed 26 August 2017;
10945:Frankel, 1976, p. 172.
10864:, accessed 26 August 2017;
10708:Musée des Phares et Balises
10625:"Brewster, Sir David"
10495:"Lens use prior to Fresnel"
10458:Kipnis, 1991, pp. 225,
9197:Frankel, 1976, p. 164.
8209:Frankel, 1976, p. 155.
7793:Newton, 1730, pp. 279,
7760:Newton, 1730, pp. 283,
7666:Darrigol, 2012, p. 87.
7600:American Journal of Physics
7350:Kneller, 1911, p. 148.
7052:, accessed 21 August 2017;
6726:(2 volumes, 1807). In
6425:Fresnel (unit of frequency)
6320:
6166:
6158:
6097:
5824:
5723:12 kilometres (7.5 mi)
5640:
5582:Fresnel was elected to the
5575:Musée national de la Marine
5571:, and now exhibited at the
5480:Musée national de la Marine
5376:(with central segment
5278:Fresnel lens § History
5211:
5113:Airy diffraction pattern 65
4964:
4952:
3810:
3174:that the substitutions for
2137:
1691:
1306:
906:Similarly inconclusive was
896:
834:corpuscular theory of light
587:
439:Later, he coined the terms
332:, excluding any remnant of
10:
12520:
12459:École Polytechnique alumni
12334:, London: J. Murray,
12023:(for 1824, printed 1827),
11540:, accessed 6 August 2017;
11428:MacCullagh, James (1830).
11111:Boutry, 1948, p. 603.
11051:Levitt, 2013, p. 233.
10936:Kipnis, 1991, p. 217.
10877:Elton, 2009, pp. 199,
10784:Arago, 1857, pp. 467,
10771:Elton, 2009, p. 190.
10737:Elton, 2009, p. 195;
10676:Levitt, 2013, pp. 56,
10645:Levitt, 2013, pp. 51,
10510:Levitt, 2013, p. 57.
10366:Encyclopædia Metropolitana
10364:J.F.W. Herschel, "Light",
9166:Arago & Fresnel, 1819.
9084: views, see
8630:Levitt, 2013, pp. 28,
8314:Levitt, 2013, pp. 39,
8150:10.1088/0150-536X/20/3/002
8124:Buchwald, J Z (May 1989).
7921:Newton, 1730, p. 356.
7912:Newton, 1730, p. 363.
7751:Newton, 1730, p. 284.
7540:Newton, 1730, p. 362.
7292:Boutry, 1948, p. 592.
7143:Boutry, 1948, p. 590.
7113:, accessed 30 August 2017.
7092:, accessed 30 August 2017.
6890:Collins English Dictionary
6744:Philosophical Transactions
6720:Philosophical Transactions
6686:[oɡystɛ̃ʒɑ̃fʁɛnɛl]
5726:died eight days later, on
5704:1825, described the first
5518:Saint-Clément-des-Baleines
5275:
5241:in the early 1820s and by
5180:Encyclopædia Metropolitana
3996:—or, in later literature,
3813:Physically based rendering
2715:{\displaystyle \cos \phi }
1374:Philosophical Transactions
1239:François Arago (1786–1853)
774:in 1795. In 1816 the
304:École Polytech (1821–1824)
18:
11768:10.1017/S0269889706000895
11748:Social Studies of Science
11657:jstor.org/stable/43413515
11631:through that intersection
11553:Lloyd, 1834, p. 382.
11518:Levitt, 2013, p. 19.
11486:jstor.org/stable/30078785
10993:, July 2007, p. 130.
10967:Levitt, 2013, p. 77.
10842:Elton, 2009, p. 200.
10806:Levitt, 2013, p. 84.
10762:Levitt, 2013, p. 82.
10753:Levitt, 2013, p. 97.
10575:Levitt, 2013, p. 71.
10522:Levitt, 2013, p. 59.
9624:Lloyd, 1834, p. 368.
9607:Item re Brewster,
9349:Young, 1855, p. 383.
8891:Levitt, 2013, p. 46.
8080:Young, 1855, p. 233.
7858:Young, 1855, p. 188.
7341:Levitt, 2013, p. 24.
7213:Levitt, 2009, p. 49.
7170:Levitt, 2013, p. 72.
7152:Levitt, 2013, p. 99.
6491:Huygens–Fresnel principle
6363:History of science portal
6188:
5550:
5421:and his entourage—from 32
5400:. Each ring, shaped as a
4761:{\displaystyle \,a,b,c\,}
3789:total internal reflection
3434:Partial reflection (1821)
2079:Natura simplex et fecunda
1992:Natura simplex et fecunda
1694:Huygens–Fresnel principle
963:. In the special case of
746:of a few months ago that
523:
467:total internal reflection
311:
286:
275:
268:
228:
199:
175:Huygens–Fresnel principle
122:
100:
90:
71:
49:
37:
30:
12207:(PhD dissertation,
11851:, 23 January 2006 (
11835:in K.F. Schaffner,
11728:10.1179/175812109X449612
11700:, American Book Company.
11527:Levitt, 2013, p. 8.
11252:Ampère's Electrodynamics
10715:, France, 23 March 2017.
8869:Crew, 1900, p. 144.
8722:"Fresnel, Augustin Jean"
7384:"Fresnel, Augustin-Jean"
6197:The lantern room of the
6094:Fresnel drag coefficient
5827:Electron magnetic moment
5758:Émile Verdet (1824–1866)
5233:A German translation of
3884:component of vibration (
3804:complex refractive index
3380:the idea in a paper on "
1876:
1055:Thomas Young (1773–1829)
939:(double refraction) of "
671:Jansenism is considered
344:(reflective/refractive)
21:Fresnel (disambiguation)
12232:R. Taylor (ed.), 1852,
12209:6 + 352 pp.
12056:vol. 3 (1870)
12052:vol. 2 (1868)
12048:vol. 1 (1866)
11849:General Science Journal
11845:10.1016/C2013-0-02335-3
11812:; partly translated as
11752:jstor.org/stable/284930
11579:(Paris), vol. 41,
10631:Encyclopædia Britannica
10584:D. Appleton & Co.,
9009:Académie des Sciences,
8802:See Fresnel, 1818b, in
7496:Académie des Sciences,
7278:Encyclopædia Britannica
7233:Encyclopædia Britannica
7048:Académie des Sciences,
6937:Encyclopædia Britannica
6420:Elliptical polarization
6315:Eugène Michel Antoniadi
5749:Posthumous publications
5693:Encyclopædia Britannica
5630:Royal Society of London
5029:45°–90°–45° prisms
4975:Second memoir (1822–26)
4196:{\displaystyle \theta }
3848:elliptical polarization
3840:polarisation rectiligne
3319:Encyclopædia Britannica
2023:(all corpuscularists),
1688:superposition principle
1550:produce virtual images
1437:two-source interference
1006:waves, with the lowest
843:rectilinear propagation
689:Engineering assignments
642:Fresnel's parents were
570:, father of the writer
486:Royal Society of London
454:elliptical polarization
410:reflection coefficients
85:, Île-de-France, France
12474:French Roman Catholics
12469:French civil engineers
12091:Fundamentals of Optics
11903:10.5281/zenodo.4541332
11878:10.5281/zenodo.4058004
11065:"Promontorium Fresnel"
11004:Encyclopedia Americana
10190:10.1098/rstl.1816.0011
10141:10.1098/rstl.1815.0006
9755:(read 29 March 1819),
9071:the prize was decided.
8032:10.1098/rstl.1815.0010
7694:10.1098/rstl.1672.0051
6480:Fresnel's wave surface
6288:
6244:
6212:
6202:
6183:William Rowan Hamilton
6100:Aether drag hypothesis
6086:
6031:
6011:
5974:
5947:
5896:
5876:
5760:
5735:Père Lachaise Cemetery
5686:
5626:
5579:
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5484:
5385:
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5138:
5103:
5013:
4920:
4762:
4728:
4650:
4284:wave-normal velocities
4197:
4173:
4146:
4114:
3984:curve, as if they had
3941:
3831:
3794:This success inspired
3761:
3741:
3716:
3632:
3521:reflection coefficient
3400:
3293:
3268:
3267:{\displaystyle I_{e},}
3238:
3211:
3188:
3163:
3143:
3118:
3027:
2926:
2874:
2818:
2794:
2793:{\displaystyle \phi ,}
2771:
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2397:
2056:
2016:
1975:
1870:
1770:
1736:
1631:
1569:
1529:
1464:in the département of
1433:
1379:
1319:
1263:
1241:
1221:chromatic polarization
1127:
1091:
1057:
989:
985:thin-film interference
916:, which is due to the
829:
756:
719:
665:
520:
469:, as exploited in the
95:Père Lachaise Cemetery
12203:R.H. Silliman, 1967,
12108:, Basel: Birkhäuser,
11853:PDF, 8 pp.
11694:H. Crew (ed.), 1900,
11662:J.Z. Buchwald, 1989,
11492:(?), completed 1837).
7982:, vol. 2, 1809,
7388:Catholic Encyclopedia
6410:Circular polarization
6307:wave–particle duality
6264:
6239:
6208:
6196:
6087:
6032:
6012:
5975:
5973:{\displaystyle n^{2}}
5948:
5897:
5877:
5756:
5684:
5617:
5590:Bulletin des Sciences
5558:
5530:
5476:
5438:Commission des Phares
5367:
5339:Commission des Phares
5304:
5286:cm in diameter and 14
5276:Further information:
5259:Hence, in 1850, when
5112:
5098:
5094:Ivor Grattan-Guinness
5055:circular polarization
5007:
4921:
4763:
4729:
4651:
4198:
4174:
4172:{\displaystyle v_{e}}
4147:
4145:{\displaystyle v_{o}}
4115:
3879:
3844:circular polarization
3828:
3800:Augustin-Louis Cauchy
3773:Fresnel's tangent law
3762:
3742:
3717:
3633:
3507:Plane of polarization
3391:
3289:
3269:
3239:
3237:{\displaystyle I_{o}}
3212:
3189:
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3119:
3028:
2927:
2875:
2819:
2817:{\displaystyle \phi }
2795:
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2687:
2685:{\displaystyle \phi }
2667:
2665:{\displaystyle \phi }
2647:
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2398:
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2012:
1976:
1871:
1742:
1708:
1626:
1622:Year Without a Summer
1535:
1504:
1423:
1357:
1314:
1259:
1237:
1181:no working hypothesis
1153:plane of polarization
1125:
1087:
1053:
981:
973:Ignace-Gaston Pardies
819:
776:Académie des Sciences
767:Académie des Sciences
752:polarization of light
740:
715:
682:Catholic Encyclopedia
660:
620:Adrien-Marie Legendre
512:
448:circular polarization
318:Augustin-Jean Fresnel
32:Augustin-Jean Fresnel
12383:2 March 2021 at the
12358:at Wikimedia Commons
12131:T.M. Kettle), 1911,
12078:Traité de la Lumière
11587:, Washington, 1927,
9691:www.jm-derochette.be
9432:Fresnel, 1821a, §13;
9319:Fresnel, 1821a, §10.
7819:(Bakerian Lecture),
6829:lentilles à échelons
6475:Fresnel zone antenna
6295:photoelectric effect
6135:chromatic aberration
6045:
6021:
5984:
5957:
5906:
5886:
5866:
5798:Not included in the
5664:Promontorium Fresnel
5346:lentilles à échelons
5327:Marquis de Condorcet
5292:Old Lower Lighthouse
4778:
4738:
4665:
4324:
4187:
4156:
4129:
4047:
4032:ray-velocity surface
3751:
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2613:
2414:
2213:
2063:reductio ad absurdum
2043:Shadow cast by a 5.8
1880:
1779:
1513:producing minima at
1351:First attempt (1815)
1204:complementary colors
1100:Pierre-Simon Laplace
975:did before Huygens.
584:École des Beaux-Arts
330:wave theory of light
12308:, pp. 135–157.
12292:2 June 2023 at the
12157:T.H. Levitt, 2013,
12142:T.H. Levitt, 2009,
11923:A. Fresnel, 1822a,
11703:O. Darrigol, 2012,
11691:, pp. 445–472.
11571:Opening sentence in
11501:Phare de Cordouan,
11476:1–144, read 23 Jan.
10701:Optique de Cordouan
9987:10.1051/epn:2006305
9978:2006ENews..37c..26L
9763:(for 1818 [
9292:Fresnel, 1821b, §3.
8906:Journal de Physique
8726:American Cyclopædia
8142:1989JOpt...20..109B
7612:1959AmJPh..27..293D
7010:'martan' (author),
6496:Linear polarization
6415:Fresnel diffraction
6405:Catadioptric system
6216:James Clerk Maxwell
6199:Cordouan Lighthouse
5743:Institute of France
5594:Pierre Louis Dulong
5541:overhead projectors
5431:Cordouan Lighthouse
5243:Franz Ernst Neumann
5189:George Biddell Airy
5092:, as translated by
5071:System of Chemistry
4225:Biot's dihedral law
4083:
4065:
3928:directions. If the
3836:linear polarization
3382:Calcul des teintes…
1913:
1812:
1289:rotary polarization
1273:mobile polarization
1096:Étienne-Louis Malus
957:paths of least time
884:ordinary refraction
878:ordinary reflection
638:Religious formation
549:École Polytechnique
442:linear polarization
366:overhead projectors
108:École polytechnique
12499:Optical physicists
12479:History of physics
12285:J. Worrall, 1989,
12246:W. Whewell, 1857,
12076:C. Huygens, 1690,
11920:, April 2021.
11839:, Pergamon, 1972 (
11760:Science in Context
11509:22 September 2016.
11362:1828, at pp.
11267:J. Joubert (ed.),
10706:collection of the
10557:"The Fresnel lens"
9802:1828, at pp.
8902:Honoré Flaugergues
7952:10.1007/BF00595375
7050:"Augustin Fresnel"
6931:"Lighthouse"
6430:Fresnel–Arago laws
6377:Engineering portal
6203:
6177:Conical refraction
6169:Sellmeier equation
6082:
6027:
6007:
5970:
5943:
5892:
5882:moved at velocity
5872:
5761:
5687:
5580:
5533:
5490:Canal Saint-Martin
5485:
5386:
5315:
5205:angular resolution
5193:Lucasian Professor
5139:
5014:
4916:
4758:
4724:
4646:
4311:those conditions.
4246:neither refraction
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4169:
4142:
4110:
4069:
4050:
3942:
3832:
3787:components due to
3769:Fresnel's sine law
3757:
3737:
3712:
3628:
3359:transverse, hence
3294:
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3210:{\displaystyle A,}
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1971:
1938:
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1837:
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1771:
1737:
1662:of the pavements.
1620:But 1816 was the "
1570:
1530:
1474:Louis-Mathieu Molé
1329:André-Marie Ampère
1320:
1264:
1246:Jean-Baptiste Biot
1242:
1128:
1092:
1058:
990:
961:Fermat's principle
909:stellar aberration
852:Christiaan Huygens
850:, as developed by
830:
761:Institut de France
720:
521:
338:corpuscular theory
324:whose research in
140:Fresnel–Arago laws
66:, Normandy, France
12354:Media related to
12194:I. Newton, 1730,
12167:978-0-393-35089-0
12152:978-0-19-954470-7
12127:K.A. Kneller (tr.
12114:978-3-0348-9717-4
12104:N. Kipnis, 1991,
12083:Treatise on Light
11713:978-0-19-964437-7
11689:978-0-19-969625-3
11605:D.F.J. Arago (tr.
10911:21 February 2021.
10531:N. de Condorcet,
10221:pp. 715–717.
9080:Concerning their
8130:Journal of Optics
7688:(88): 5084–5103.
7620:10.1119/1.1934839
7460:pp. 810–817.
7161:Fresnel, 1866–70.
7056:15 February 2017.
6871:978-1-4058-8118-0
6591:-nel, -nəl
6533:Explanatory notes
6435:Fresnel equations
6161:Cauchy's equation
6030:{\displaystyle v}
5895:{\displaystyle v}
5875:{\displaystyle n}
5793:J. Lissajous
5770:Oeuvres complètes
5677:Decline and death
5307:plano-convex lens
5049:mm at one metre.
4902:
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4305:surface de l'onde
4297:in that direction
3970:Double refraction
3920:with axes in the
3808:computer graphics
3760:{\displaystyle r}
3740:{\displaystyle i}
3706:
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3539:Fresnel equations
3481:elastic collision
3187:{\displaystyle U}
3162:{\displaystyle A}
3142:{\displaystyle U}
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2645:{\displaystyle s}
2622:{\displaystyle i}
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2034:John Worrall
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1700:Fresnel integrals
857:Treatise on Light
422:doubly-refractive
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270:Scientific career
150:Fresnel integrals
145:Fresnel equations
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1285:optical activity
1281:optical rotation
1194:In August 1811,
1143:Brewster's angle
1029:Bakerian Lecture
914:stellar parallax
902:
889:refractive index
605:l'homme de génie
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561:Fulgence Fresnel
459:optical rotation
457:, explained how
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379:'s principle of
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11376:
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11359:
11355:
11347:
11345:
11341:
11334:
11332:
11328:
11324:Fresnel, 1818c.
11323:
11319:
11314:
11310:
11305:
11301:
11294:
11292:
11288:
11283:
11279:
11266:
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11165:
11163:
11159:
11155:Fresnel, 1818a.
11154:
11150:
11145:
11141:
11136:
11132:
11123:
11121:
11119:
11115:
11110:
11106:
11101:
11097:
11092:
11088:
11083:
11079:
11069:"Rimae Fresnel"
11059:
11055:
11050:
11046:
11035:
11031:
11025:"Rumford Medal"
11023:Royal Society,
11022:
11018:
11001:
10997:
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10984:
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10975:
10971:
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10962:
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10248:Fresnel, 1822a.
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9375:
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9287:
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9282:
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9242:
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6985:"third edition"
6974:
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6450:Fresnel lantern
6389:
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6354:
6347:
6342:
6340:
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6253:William Whewell
6234:(1834) for the
6220:Albert Einstein
6191:
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6121:
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5852:Unfinished work
5846:European Review
5837:
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5722:
5679:
5657:" is among the
5654:
5648:
5608:(Knight of the
5601:
5598:Jacques Charles
5572:
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5417:
5411:Arc de Triomphe
5350:Jacques Charles
5332:burning glasses
5287:
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5250:William Whewell
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1640:
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1556:
1549:
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1491:Claude Pouillet
1466:Ille-et-Vilaine
1353:
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8919:
8910:
8893:
8884:
8871:
8862:
8853:
8844:
8835:
8825:
8816:
8795:
8786:
8777:
8768:
8759:
8742:
8706:
8697:
8680:
8671:
8662:
8653:
8636:
8623:
8614:
8605:
8596:
8583:
8574:
8565:
8556:
8547:
8534:
8521:
8512:
8510:Fresnel, 1816.
8503:
8486:
8473:
8464:
8431:
8422:
8405:
8396:
8387:
8378:
8369:
8360:
8347:
8338:
8329:
8320:
8307:
8298:
8285:
8273:
8264:
8229:
8220:
8211:
8202:
8190:
8181:
8172:
8163:
8136:(3): 109–117.
8113:
8104:
8095:
8082:
8073:
8064:
8055:
8006:
7997:
7988:
7966:
7946:(4): 311–373.
7923:
7914:
7905:
7896:
7887:
7878:
7869:
7860:
7851:
7842:
7825:
7799:
7786:
7766:
7753:
7744:
7735:
7726:
7717:
7668:
7659:
7650:
7637:
7606:(5): 293–301.
7586:
7577:
7564:
7551:
7542:
7533:
7524:
7515:
7506:
7489:
7480:
7471:
7462:
7448:
7427:10.1086/349348
7401:
7392:
7370:
7361:
7352:
7343:
7334:
7324:
7311:
7307:pp. 78–80
7294:
7285:
7269:, ed. (1911),
7267:Chisholm, Hugh
7255:
7246:
7237:
7224:
7215:
7206:
7172:
7163:
7154:
7145:
7136:
7124:
7115:
7094:
7078:
7076:, 5 July 2011.
7058:
7036:
7020:
7018:, 30 May 2014.
6993:
6953:
6944:
6928:, ed. (1911),
6926:Chisholm, Hugh
6910:
6901:
6877:
6870:
6848:
6847:
6845:
6842:
6840:
6837:
6834:
6833:
6819:
6802:
6785:
6775:
6765:
6748:
6711:
6701:
6691:
6537:
6536:
6534:
6531:
6529:
6528:
6523:
6518:
6513:
6508:
6503:
6498:
6493:
6488:
6482:
6477:
6472:
6467:
6462:
6460:Fresnel number
6457:
6452:
6447:
6442:
6440:Fresnel imager
6437:
6432:
6427:
6422:
6417:
6412:
6407:
6402:
6396:
6395:
6394:
6391:Physics portal
6380:
6366:
6352:
6338:
6322:
6319:
6290:
6289:
6250:
6230:Lloyd, in his
6228:
6190:
6187:
6178:
6175:
6151:Philip Kelland
6137:. Fresnel, in
6120:
6117:
6081:
6076:
6072:
6067:
6063:
6060:
6057:
6054:
6051:
6026:
6005:
6001:
5995:
5991:
5967:
5963:
5942:
5937:
5933:
5928:
5924:
5921:
5918:
5915:
5912:
5891:
5871:
5858:
5855:
5853:
5850:
5836:
5833:
5787:died in 1862,
5766:Joseph Fourier
5757:
5750:
5747:
5678:
5675:
5561:David d'Angers
5552:
5549:
5497:Alan Stevenson
5398:Venetian blind
5273:
5270:
5117:mm from a 0.09
5062:
5059:
5001:
4998:
4976:
4973:
4929:
4928:
4927:
4926:
4915:
4911:
4907:
4898:
4894:
4890:
4885:
4881:
4874:
4870:
4864:
4856:
4852:
4848:
4843:
4839:
4832:
4828:
4822:
4814:
4810:
4806:
4801:
4797:
4790:
4786:
4756:
4753:
4750:
4747:
4744:
4722:
4717:
4713:
4709:
4703:
4699:
4695:
4689:
4685:
4681:
4676:
4672:
4659:
4658:
4657:
4656:
4645:
4641:
4637:
4632:
4628:
4622:
4618:
4612:
4608:
4604:
4599:
4595:
4589:
4582:
4578:
4574:
4568:
4564:
4558:
4551:
4547:
4543:
4538:
4534:
4528:
4521:
4517:
4513:
4507:
4503:
4497:
4490:
4486:
4482:
4477:
4473:
4467:
4460:
4456:
4452:
4446:
4442:
4436:
4429:
4425:
4421:
4416:
4409:
4405:
4399:
4395:
4391:
4385:
4381:
4375:
4371:
4367:
4361:
4357:
4351:
4347:
4341:
4334:
4330:
4236:
4233:
4221:dihedral angle
4192:
4166:
4162:
4139:
4135:
4123:
4122:
4121:
4120:
4109:
4105:
4102:
4097:
4093:
4089:
4086:
4081:
4076:
4072:
4068:
4062:
4057:
4053:
3976:
3973:
3971:
3968:
3873:
3870:
3822:
3819:
3756:
3736:
3725:
3724:
3723:
3722:
3711:
3704:
3701:
3698:
3695:
3692:
3689:
3686:
3681:
3678:
3675:
3672:
3669:
3666:
3663:
3657:
3652:
3648:
3624:
3621:
3618:
3615:
3612:
3609:
3606:
3601:
3598:
3595:
3592:
3589:
3586:
3583:
3577:
3574:
3569:
3565:
3435:
3432:
3290:
3283:
3280:
3263:
3258:
3254:
3231:
3227:
3206:
3203:
3183:
3158:
3138:
3127:
3126:
3125:
3124:
3113:
3109:
3106:
3103:
3100:
3097:
3094:
3091:
3086:
3082:
3078:
3075:
3072:
3069:
3064:
3060:
3056:
3053:
3048:
3044:
3033:
3022:
3018:
3015:
3012:
3009:
3006:
3003:
3000:
2995:
2991:
2987:
2984:
2981:
2978:
2973:
2969:
2965:
2962:
2957:
2953:
2935:
2934:
2933:
2932:
2921:
2914:
2911:
2905:
2900:
2896:
2892:
2889:
2866:
2863:
2857:
2852:
2848:
2844:
2841:
2813:
2789:
2786:
2765:
2762:
2757:
2753:
2749:
2744:
2740:
2711:
2708:
2705:
2681:
2661:
2641:
2618:
2607:
2606:
2605:
2604:
2593:
2589:
2586:
2583:
2580:
2577:
2573:
2569:
2566:
2563:
2560:
2557:
2553:
2550:
2547:
2544:
2538:
2535:
2529:
2526:
2523:
2519:
2515:
2512:
2509:
2504:
2500:
2495:
2492:
2487:
2483:
2479:
2476:
2473:
2469:
2465:
2462:
2459:
2454:
2450:
2445:
2442:
2437:
2433:
2429:
2424:
2420:
2406:
2405:
2404:
2403:
2392:
2388:
2385:
2382:
2379:
2376:
2372:
2368:
2365:
2362:
2359:
2356:
2352:
2349:
2346:
2343:
2337:
2334:
2328:
2325:
2322:
2318:
2314:
2311:
2308:
2303:
2299:
2294:
2291:
2286:
2282:
2278:
2275:
2272:
2268:
2264:
2261:
2258:
2253:
2249:
2244:
2241:
2236:
2232:
2228:
2223:
2219:
2128:
2125:
2099:
2096:
2094:
2091:
2072:Poisson's spot
2013:
1984:
1983:
1982:
1981:
1970:
1966:
1963:
1957:
1950:
1946:
1942:
1936:
1933:
1925:
1920:
1917:
1911:
1906:
1902:
1897:
1894:
1891:
1888:
1885:
1865:
1862:
1856:
1849:
1845:
1841:
1835:
1832:
1824:
1819:
1816:
1810:
1805:
1801:
1796:
1793:
1790:
1787:
1784:
1743:
1709:
1639:
1636:
1561:
1554:
1547:
1540:
1498:
1495:
1431:understand it.
1352:
1349:
1347:
1344:
1308:
1305:
1260:
1238:
1196:François Arago
1148:David Brewster
1088:
1054:
1000:Newton's rings
810:bold type
803:
800:
798:
795:
716:
701:for producing
699:Solvay process
690:
687:
639:
636:
612:École Centrale
599:
596:
525:
522:
506:
503:
499:Humphrey Lloyd
371:By expressing
313:
312:
309:
308:
306:
305:
302:
296:
290:
288:
284:
283:
277:
273:
272:
266:
265:
263:
262:
258:1827 for '24:
256:
250:
242:
232:
230:
226:
225:
223:
222:
216:
213:Léonor Mérimée
210:
203:
201:
197:
196:
194:
193:
188:
183:
182:representation
177:
172:
167:
162:
160:Fresnel number
157:
152:
147:
142:
137:
132:
126:
124:
123:Known for
120:
119:
117:
116:
111:
104:
102:
98:
97:
92:
88:
87:
81:
79:(aged 39)
73:
69:
68:
62:
51:
47:
46:
43:
35:
34:
31:
15:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
12516:
12505:
12502:
12500:
12497:
12495:
12492:
12490:
12487:
12485:
12482:
12480:
12477:
12475:
12472:
12470:
12467:
12465:
12462:
12460:
12457:
12455:
12452:
12450:
12447:
12445:
12442:
12440:
12437:
12435:
12432:
12430:
12427:
12425:
12422:
12421:
12419:
12407:
12403:
12399:
12396:
12392:
12389:
12386:
12382:
12379:
12375:
12372:
12369:
12365:
12362:
12361:
12357:
12352:
12348:
12347:
12337:
12333:
12329:
12326:
12322:
12314:
12310:
12307:
12306:0-521-33185-4
12303:
12299:
12295:
12291:
12288:
12284:
12273:
12272:
12267:
12264:
12253:
12249:
12245:
12242:
12235:
12231:
12228:
12227:
12221:
12217:
12206:
12202:
12199:
12198:
12193:
12190:
12182:
12179:
12175:
12171:
12168:
12164:
12160:
12156:
12153:
12149:
12145:
12141:
12138:
12134:
12126:
12115:
12111:
12107:
12103:
12100:
12099:0-07-032330-5
12096:
12092:
12088:
12085:
12084:
12079:
12075:
12072:
12071:3-7643-2238-1
12068:
12064:
12060:
12057:
12053:
12049:
12045:
12037:
12034:
12030:
12026:
12018:
12014:
12011:
12007:
12003:
12000:
11992:
11988:
11980:
11972:
11968:
11960:
11956:
11948:
11940:
11939:
11930:
11926:
11925:De la Lumière
11922:
11919:
11915:
11907:
11904:
11900:
11895:
11890:
11886:
11882:
11879:
11875:
11870:
11865:
11861:
11857:
11854:
11850:
11846:
11842:
11838:
11834:
11830:
11826:
11822:
11819:
11815:
11811:
11807:
11799:
11795:
11792:
11788:
11783:
11780:
11776:
11772:
11769:
11765:
11761:
11756:
11753:
11749:
11745:
11742:
11738:
11737:
11732:
11729:
11725:
11721:
11717:
11714:
11710:
11706:
11702:
11699:
11698:
11693:
11690:
11686:
11682:
11678:
11675:
11674:0-226-07886-8
11671:
11667:
11666:
11661:
11658:
11654:
11650:
11647:
11643:
11639:
11635:
11632:
11628:
11624:
11621:452n.)
11616:
11612:
11604:
11603:
11590:
11586:
11582:
11578:
11568:
11559:
11550:
11544:30 June 2017.
11543:
11539:
11533:
11524:
11515:
11508:
11504:
11498:
11487:
11480:& 22 Oct.
11471:
11465:
11456:
11451:
11447:
11443:
11439:
11435:
11431:
11424:
11422:
11412:
11403:
11394:
11385:
11372:
11365:
11353:
11343:
11330:
11321:
11312:
11303:
11290:
11281:
11274:
11270:
11264:
11257:
11253:
11247:
11245:
11235:
11226:
11217:
11208:
11191:
11178:
11161:
11152:
11143:
11134:
11117:
11108:
11099:
11090:
11081:
11074:
11070:
11066:
11062:
11057:
11048:
11041:
11040:
11033:
11026:
11020:
11013:
11009:
11005:
10999:
10992:
10988:
10982:
10973:
10964:
10951:
10942:
10933:
10931:
10923:
10917:
10910:
10906:
10900:
10891:
10874:
10867:
10863:
10857:
10848:
10839:
10830:
10821:
10812:
10803:
10794:
10777:
10768:
10759:
10750:
10748:
10734:
10721:
10714:
10710:
10709:
10703:
10702:
10695:
10686:
10673:
10664:
10655:
10642:
10633:
10632:
10626:
10621:
10615:
10609:8 April 2017.
10608:
10604:
10598:
10591:
10587:
10581:
10572:
10570:
10563:22 July 2017.
10562:
10558:
10552:
10550:
10548:
10546:
10544:
10536:
10535:
10528:
10519:
10517:
10507:
10500:
10496:
10490:
10481:
10472:
10455:
10442:
10428:, vol.
10427:
10423:
10417:
10408:
10399:
10386:
10375:
10371:
10367:
10361:
10352:
10343:
10330:
10321:
10312:
10303:
10294:
10285:
10272:
10263:
10254:
10245:
10236:
10227:
10217:
10208:
10203:
10199:
10195:
10191:
10187:
10183:
10179:
10175:
10168:
10159:
10154:
10150:
10146:
10142:
10138:
10134:
10130:
10126:
10119:
10110:
10097:
10080:
10071:
10062:
10053:
10043:pp. 289,
10039:
10030:
10028:
10014:
10005:
9997:
9993:
9988:
9983:
9979:
9975:
9971:
9967:
9963:
9956:
9947:
9938:
9931:
9930:
9923:
9914:
9905:
9894:
9884:
9875:
9866:
9857:
9848:
9839:
9830:
9821:
9812:
9805:
9793:
9783:
9776:
9772:
9768:
9767:
9758:
9754:
9748:
9735:
9726:
9717:
9704:
9697:
9693:
9692:
9687:
9681:
9672:
9663:
9649:
9639:
9630:
9621:
9614:
9610:
9604:
9595:
9582:
9575:
9568:
9566:
9564:
9554:
9541:
9528:
9519:
9509:
9507:
9505:
9503:
9493:
9484:
9477:
9469:
9465:
9461:
9457:
9451:
9442:
9429:
9420:
9411:
9402:
9393:
9384:
9371:
9364:
9358:
9356:
9346:
9325:
9316:
9307:
9298:
9289:
9280:
9271:
9264:
9260:
9254:
9250:
9246:
9240:
9234:
9225:
9212:
9203:
9194:
9185:
9172:
9163:
9150:
9133:
9124:
9107:
9098:
9091:
9083:
9077:
9070:
9066:
9062:
9058:
9050:
9044:
9035:
9026:
9019:
9012:
9006:
9004:
8994:
8981:
8972:
8963:
8954:
8947:
8941:
8932:
8923:
8914:
8907:
8903:
8897:
8888:
8875:
8866:
8857:
8848:
8839:
8829:
8820:
8805:
8799:
8790:
8781:
8772:
8763:
8753:
8751:
8749:
8747:
8731:
8727:
8723:
8717:
8715:
8713:
8711:
8701:
8684:
8675:
8666:
8657:
8650:
8646:
8640:
8627:
8618:
8609:
8600:
8587:
8578:
8569:
8560:
8551:
8538:
8525:
8516:
8507:
8490:
8477:
8468:
8458:" should be "
8435:
8426:
8409:
8400:
8391:
8382:
8373:
8364:
8351:
8342:
8333:
8324:
8311:
8302:
8295:
8289:
8280:
8278:
8268:
8262:(April 1802).
8261:
8257:
8253:
8249:
8248:
8233:
8224:
8215:
8206:
8197:
8195:
8185:
8176:
8167:
8159:
8155:
8151:
8147:
8143:
8139:
8135:
8131:
8127:
8120:
8118:
8108:
8099:
8086:
8077:
8068:
8059:
8050:
8045:
8041:
8037:
8033:
8029:
8025:
8021:
8017:
8010:
8001:
7992:
7985:
7981:
7977:
7970:
7961:
7957:
7953:
7949:
7945:
7941:
7937:
7930:
7928:
7918:
7909:
7900:
7891:
7882:
7873:
7864:
7855:
7846:
7829:
7822:
7818:
7812:
7810:
7808:
7806:
7804:
7790:
7779:
7773:
7771:
7757:
7748:
7739:
7730:
7721:
7712:
7707:
7703:
7699:
7695:
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2093:Polarization
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1603:preliminary
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1564:of the slit
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1079:longitudinal
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1044:interference
1042:
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1032:
1025:Thomas Young
1020:
1016:Robert Hooke
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475:
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434:axisymmetric
425:
406:transmission
402:polarization
381:interference
370:
358:Count Buffon
346:Fresnel lens
342:catadioptric
317:
316:
287:Institutions
269:
245:
239:
186:Polarization
170:Fresnel zone
155:Fresnel lens
77:(1827-07-14)
75:14 July 1827
25:
12429:1827 deaths
12424:1788 births
12336:vol. 1
12325:vol. 2
12321:vol. 1
12252:vol. 2
12224:version at
12116:, chapters
10420:G.B. Airy,
10184:: 156–178.
9698:1 May 2017.
9061:intensities
8944:B. Watson,
8026:: 125–159.
7984:p. 266
6740:vol. 2
6728:vol. 1
6280:Tycho Brahe
6108:same medium
5820:microscopic
5650:Jules Jamin
5509:first-order
5501:Isle of May
5199:and future
4036:corpuscular
3896:component (
3338:unpolarized
2724:three bands
2116:has called
1361:diffraction
1346:Diffraction
1229:corpuscular
1171:Malus's law
1062:diffraction
1012:wavelengths
1008:frequencies
995:thin plates
848:wave theory
652:Augustinian
557:engineering
389:diffraction
350:lighthouses
301:(1819–1820)
191:Wave optics
135:Diffraction
110:(1804–1806)
60:10 May 1788
12489:Jansenists
12418:Categories
12238:vol.
12146:, Oxford,
11918:Wikisource
11707:, Oxford,
11683:, Oxford,
11036:J. Jamin,
10087:1034–1040,
9015:vol.
8258:(London),
8236:Presumably
7815:T. Young,
6963:H. Lloyd,
6839:References
6486:zone plate
6272:Copernicus
6126:dispersion
6119:Dispersion
5835:Lost works
5711:Herschel's
5706:radiometer
5545:magnifiers
5505:Île Vierge
5370:m, n
5239:Fraunhofer
5228:dispersion
5144:inter alia
5033:turpentine
5010:protractor
4994:mechanical
4292:mechanical
3982:lemniscate
3918:elliptical
3534:tangential
3409:population
3328:, or that
3302:transverse
2189:transverse
2025:Gay-Lussac
1644:Grand Prix
1383:micrometer
1316:Bas-relief
1217:saturation
1104:Maupertuis
1033:wavelength
998:" (e.g., "
949:spheroidal
770:and other
505:Early life
430:wavefronts
398:transverse
385:sinusoidal
362:magnifiers
240:Grand Prix
56:1788-05-10
12319:Johnson;
11741:Centaurus
11446:0790-8113
11440:: 65–78.
11061:IAU WGPSN
11012:explained
10370:reprinted
10198:0261-0523
10149:0261-0523
10135:: 60–64.
9996:0531-7479
9456:appalling
9090:Reception
9065:positions
8294:serrurier
8158:0150-536X
8040:0261-0523
7960:1432-0657
7702:0261-0523
7628:0002-9505
7435:0021-1753
7195:cite book
6885:"Fresnel"
6844:Citations
6798:senkrecht
6185:in 1832.
6059:−
6000:−
5920:−
5785:Sénarmont
5453:catoptric
5214:Airy disk
5209:telescope
5197:Cambridge
5168:Liouville
5148:viscosity
5061:Reception
4889:−
4847:−
4805:−
4542:−
4481:−
4420:−
4263:ellipsoid
4191:θ
4104:θ
4101:
4067:−
4021:Wollaston
3838:(French:
3688:
3674:−
3665:
3608:
3594:−
3585:
3576:−
3378:published
3334:published
3330:polarized
3326:component
3102:−
3090:
3068:
3011:−
2999:
2977:
2910:ϕ
2904:
2862:ϕ
2856:
2812:ϕ
2785:ϕ
2710:ϕ
2707:
2680:ϕ
2660:ϕ
2588:ϕ
2585:
2572:−
2559:
2546:
2528:−
2518:−
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2491:
2468:−
2458:
2441:
2387:ϕ
2384:
2371:−
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2345:
2317:−
2307:
2290:
2267:−
2257:
2240:
1941:π
1919:
1901:∫
1840:π
1818:
1800:∫
1591:fringes.
1573:distance
1027:, in the
1010:(longest
965:isotropic
864:surface (
822:wavefront
772:académies
673:heretical
648:Jansenist
598:Education
580:chemistry
538:Cherbourg
414:isotropic
322:physicist
209:(brother)
200:Relatives
101:Education
12406:archived
12381:Archived
12290:Archived
12268:, 1910,
11929:On Light
11542:archived
11507:archived
11455:30079025
11202:461–462.
10909:archived
10903:T. Tag,
10866:archived
10713:Ouessant
10607:archived
10601:T. Tag,
10561:archived
10555:T. Tag,
10499:archived
10493:T. Tag,
9696:archived
9694:, 2004;
9548:792–796.
9468:Lectures
9340:218–219.
9257:, where
9057:aperture
8833:shadow).
8645:proposed
8244:Jordan,
7797:281–282.
7502:archived
7443:14888349
7332:success.
7054:archived
7032:archived
6860:(2008),
6811:présenté
6484:Fresnel
6321:See also
5841:Rêveries
5427:Bordeaux
5354:biconvex
5311:biconvex
5261:Foucault
5220:Brewster
5079:On Light
4982:Recueils
4949:biradial
4947:axes or
4941:binormal
4939:axes or
3998:uniaxial
3938:circular
3906:linearly
3886:parallel
3473:parallel
3455:and the
3366:coherent
2777:for all
2154:analyzer
2104:emission
1755: ,
1721: ,
1660:cadastre
1610:coherent
1589:external
1454:caustics
1449:external
1441:internal
1428:external
1405:inverted
1369:Brougham
1365:Grimaldi
1325:rêveries
1307:Rêveries
1162:electric
1038:gratings
1004:periodic
969:ordinary
951:for the
866:envelope
826:ordinary
787:Toulouse
744:Moniteur
732:Napoleon
654:view of
574:, was a
530:Normandy
432:are not
354:dioptric
254:ForMemRS
221:(cousin)
12317:
12278:
12213:
12185:
12129:
12120:
12040:
11999:159–165
11995:
11991:389–407
11987:168–191
11983:
11979:198–215
11975:
11971:431–448
11963:
11959:441–454
11955:127–141
11951:
11943:
11938:Thomson
11936:
11910:
11905:, 2021.
11894:4541332
11891::
11880:, 2021.
11869:4058004
11866::
11623:Erratum
11619:
11607:
11573:
11490:
11482:
11478:
11474:
11377:
11364:213–215
11360:
11356:
11348:
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11295:
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11170:
11166:
11126:602–603
11124:
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10726:
10704:in the
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10460:
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10277:
10089:
10085:
10045:
10019:
9974:Bibcode
9897:
9889:
9804:178–179
9800:
9796:
9788:
9740:
9709:
9657:manner.
9654:
9587:
9546:
9533:
9464:lateral
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8138:Bibcode
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7646:
7633:Erratum
7608:Bibcode
7573:
7560:
7457:
7320:
7107:
7008:
6815:
6761:
6757:
6682:French:
6303:photons
6039:average
5816:current
5800:Oeuvres
5781:Oeuvres
5655:FRESNEL
5602:
5569:Gironde
5565:Hourtin
5449:toroids
5402:frustum
5319:annular
5252:in his
5131:
5127:
5086:Fourier
5067:Thomson
4254:prolate
4213:product
4025:Seebeck
4013:emerald
4002:biaxial
3990:uniaxal
3902:surface
3888:to the
3777:complex
3453:surface
3386:Annales
2631:
2182:
2180:and sin
2175:
2021:Poisson
1757:
1723:
1680:scalars
1672:vectors
1615:Annales
1575:outside
1419:Poinsot
1231:terms.
1160:to the
1112:surface
945:calcite
862:tangent
854:in his
707:ammonia
677:Athénée
646:of the
576:painter
542:Mathieu
515:Broglie
490:Maxwell
484:of the
463:complex
426:biaxial
418:calcite
373:Huygens
299:Athénée
280:Physics
237:Academy
215:(uncle)
64:Broglie
12368:Zenodo
12304:
12260:V–XIII
12165:
12150:
12112:
12097:
12069:
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