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FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN - EXPOUNDING THE WAVE THEORY OF LIGHTBiblio.com

Mémoire Sur les couleurs développées dans des Fluides homogènes par la lumière polarisée. Presenté à l'Academie le 30 mars 1818 Mémoire sur la Réflexion de la Lumiere. Presenté à l'Academie le 15 novembre 1819. 2 Memoirs.

1846ref. 44101Paris Victor Masson 1846. No wrappers as extracted from "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" Tome 17 Troisieme Série. Titlepage to tome 17. Pp. 172-199 a. 1 engraved plate pp. 316-338 textillustr. Brownspots to titlepage and some browspots to the second memoir. First editions of two importent memoirs on polarization and reflexion of light by "the founder of the new optics".The first paper takes on a central role in Fresnel's dealing with polarization in general and specially with chromatioc polarization and the explaining the phenomena that arises when light travels through crystals. The paper was read at the Academy on march 30 was not printed at the time as it disappeared and only turned up many years later around 1845 when it was found in the papers of Fresnel's brother. "On croyait ou Mémoire perdu. Il a été retrouvé dans les papiers de M. Léonor Fresnel frère de l'illustre académicien." Thus the offered paper is here PRINTED FOR THE FIRST TIME AND IN ITS FULL LENGHT.The second paper deals with reflection and explains the different phenomena seen when light is reflected from glassplates having two surfaces parallel or with curvature interference of reflected waves and the measure of their different wavelenghts all explained according to the wave theory of light. The paper offered is for the FIRST TIME PRINTED IN ITS FULL LENGHT as it only appeared in the résumé-form in 1820 "Résumé d'un Mémoire sur la Réflexion de la lumière" Annales de Chimie et de Physique tome 15 pp. 379-386."As it was Fresnel succeeded fully in attaining his explicit goal the establishment of the wave conception of light. Not long after his death scientific opinion definitely shiftedin favor of waves and opened up the pathway leading to the deeper insight of Maxwell. In broad context Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successfull assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-centurty energetics." DSB V p. 171. unknown

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FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN - OVERTHROWING THE CORPUSCULAR THEORY OF LIGHTBiblio.com

Mémoire Sur la Diffraction de la lumière où l'on examine particulièrement le phénomène des franges colorées que présentent les ombres des corps éclairés par un point lumineux. Memoir on the Diffraction of Light.

1816ref. 43910Paris Crochard 1816 No wrappers. In: 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique' Tome I Sec. Series Cahier Mars 1816. With htitle to vol. I. Pp. 225-336 and 1 folded engraved plate. The entire issue offered. Fresnel's paper: pp. 239-281. The plate shows the diffraction patterns. First appearance of Fresnel's landmark mémoir - this mémoir was his first paper on diffraction and was later given the prize of the French Academy and published in Memoires de l'Academie in 1826 in full together with his further developments of his light theory - in which he for the first time explained the causes of the diffraction effects as the mutual interference of the secondary waves emitted by those portions of the original wave-front which have not been obstructed by the diffraction screen. His methods of calculation utilized the principles of both Huygens and Young and he summed the effects due to different portions of the same primary wave-front. The memoir records also Fresnel's famous mirror-experiment."In broad context Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successfull assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-centurty energetics." DSB V p. 171."Augustin Fresnel seems to have adopted a wave theory of light from the very beginning of his studies. His first paper presented to the Academy.in October 1815 and entitled "La Diffraction de la Lumiere" the paper offered was written after a long correspondance with Arago who had promised Fresnel his full support. "The wave theory" Fresnel wrote "is well suited to explaining the complicated propagation of light phenomena and since as we know from the case of sound waves can surcomvent obstacles I decided to make a study of shadows.It is because they cross in regions common to them both that two pencils of rays can produce fringes. hence it follows that the vibrations of rays which cross at very small angles can cancel out whenever crests of one correspond to the throughs of the other." unknown

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FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN - THE UNDULATORY THEORY OF LIGHT ESTABLISHEDBiblio.com

Ueber die Diffraction des Lichts. Mèmoires de l'acad. roy. des Scences etc. T. V. p. 339. Auszug aus einer Abhandlung über die Reflexion des Lichts. Ann. de chim. et de phys. T. XV p.379.

1833ref. 43919Leipzig Joh. Ambrosius Barth 1833. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Very light wear to spine ends and edges. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" Jahrgang 1833 Bd. 30 Ergäntzungsheft. 376 pp. a. 2 folded engraved plates. 2 small stamps to p.1 and a small stamp to verso of plates. Entire volume offered. Fresnel's papers: pp. 100-255 a. pp. 255-261. Clean and fine. First German edition of Fresnel's epoch-making memoir from the French Academy 1826 and incorporating his experimental results from the years 1815-19 in which he for the first time explained the causes of the diffraction effects as the mutual interference of the secondary waves emitted by those portions of the original wave-front which have not been obstructed by the diffraction screen. His methods of calculation utilized the principles of both Huygens and Young and he summed the effects due to different portions of the same primary wave-front. He demonstrates that the transverse wave theory of light explains the observed phenomena of reflection refraction interference polarization difraction patterns diffraction fringes etc. making a strong case for the theory of the transverse nature of light waves. The memoir records also Fresnel's famous mirror-experiment."In broad contect Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successfull assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-centurty energetics." DSB V p. 171."Augustin Fresnel seems to have adopted a wave theory of light from the very beginning of his studies. His first paper presented to the Academy.in October 1815 and entitled "La Diffraction de la Lumiere" the paper offered was written after a long correspondance with Arago who had promised Fresnel his full support. "The wave theory" Fresnel wrote "is well suited to explaining the complicated propagation of light phenomena and since as we know from the case of sound waves can surcomvent obstacles I decided to make a study of shadows.It is because they cross in regions common to them both that two pencils of rays can produce fringes. hence it follows that the vibrations of rays which cross at very small angles can cancel out whenever crests of one correspond to the throughs of the other."The voume contains further a notable paper by AMPÈRE "Bestimmung der krummen Fläche der Lichtswellen in einem Mittel dessen Elasticität verschieden ist nach den drei Hauptrichtungen d.h. nach debjenigen in welchem die von der Elasticität erregte Kraft in desselben Richtung wirkt in der die Theilchen dieses Mittels verschoben wurden." First German edition. Pp. 262-295. unknown

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YOUNG, THOMAS - THE DISCOVERIES OF THE INTERFERENCE OF LIGHT - GERMAN EDITIONSBiblio.com

Ueber die Theorie des Lichts. Frei übersetzt vom Professor Lüdicke. Nachricht von einigen Fällen einer bisher noch nicht beschriebenen Entstehung der Farben. Beschreibung einer Vorrichtung um mittelst des Sonnen-Mikroskops die Farben dünner F.

1811ref. 44092Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1811. Without wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert" Bd. 39 der Reihe Eilftes u. Zwölftes Stück. Titlepage to vol. 39. Pp. 129-244 a. 2 engraved plates. The entire issue offered. Young's papers: pp. 156-205 a. pp. 206-220. And pp. 245-360 a. 2 engraved plates. The entire issue offered. Young's papers: pp. 255-261 a. pp. 262-290. First appearance in German of Youngs 3 groundbreaking papers On the Theory of Light and Colours 1802 - An account of some Cases of the Production of Colours not hitherto described 1802 - The Bakerian Lecture. Experiments and Calculations relative to physical Optics. 1804 - which gives the first really convincing evidence that the fringes are produced by interference of light waves and giving the experimental demonstrations of the general law of Interference.These importent demonstrations served as the experimental basis for the wave hypothesis of light. - In his two first papers "On the Theory of Light and Colours" 1802 and "An account of Some Cases of the Production of Colours not hitherto described" 1802 - he only partially announced his principle of Interference and the statement of it in "An Account." was entirely hypothetical and not experimental. Magie. Source Book in Physics gives extracts of this paper and a later paper under the head: Discovery of the interference of light pp.308-15.Young also shows here that diffraction effects can be explained by the interference law."The experimental basis for the wave hypothesis of light as Young formulated it was interference. The fact has already been observed that two trauins of water waves may be so superposed that in certain regions the throughs of one train will lie continuously on the crests of another thereby producing zero disturbance.Destryctive interference is said to occur between the two trains of waves in the former case and constructivee interference in lthe latter. Similarly two sound waves may be so combined as to produce alternate regions of silence and enhanced sound. The phenomenon of interference of which the forgoing are familiar examples is easely comprehensible in the case of combining waves but would be utterly incomprehensible in the case of combining streams of particles. So when Young demonstrated that two beams of light could under properly controlled conditions be made to combine in such a way as to produce alternate regions of darkness and light he was rightly considered to have identified in light a characteristic property of waves." Lloyd Taylor in: Physics. The Pioneer Science. p. 511.Of the three papers published in the years 1802-04 the last is the most importent as it gives the experimental demonstrations of the interference of light. Dibner in Heralds of Science No. 151 list the first paper so does PMM: 259. unknown

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FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN - ESTABLISHING THAT LIGHT IS A TRANSVERSE WAVEBiblio.com

Note sur le Calcul des teintes que la polarisation développe dans les lames cristallisées. IIe Note sur la Coloration des lames cristallisées. Addition à la IIe Note insérée dans le Cahier précédent par M. Fresnel. Note sur les remarque.

1821ref. 49603Paris Crochard 1821. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Weak crack in fronthinge but still firm. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Redigées par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago". 448 pp. 1 folded plate. Some browning to htitle title-page and last leaf otherwise clean. Fresnel's papers: pp. 102-111 167-196 312-315 a. 393-403. Biot Arago Ampee: pp. 80-102 225-258 a. 258-273. First printing of these milestone papers in which Fresnel finally established the transversal nature of lightwaves. The volume also having the notable rapports and notes by Arago Biot Ampere exhibiting the famous controversy over the subject."This concept of transverse waves met with the greatest hostility from the scientists of the day who could not imagine an extremely fluid and rarified ether which at the same time possessed the mechanical properties of a rigid body. Even Arago admitted that he could not follow the exuberant engineer in his ideas. But Fresnel was convinced that at last he had the key to many mysteries and with his model of waves he gave a full clarification of the phenomena of polarization. With insuperable precision he explained a long series of extremely complicated experiments such as those of chromatic polarization that Arago himself had discovered by chance in 1811 and which the followers of Newton could not explain in spite of all their efforts. Following this line Fresnel reached the synthesis which is his masterpiece.we must recall the final interpretation that he gave of the famous phenomenon of partial reflection by transparent surfaces that simple phenomenon which until then had puzzled Grimaldi Newton and Huygens and which in Malus's experiments had unexpectedly acquired a special importencee as it had been compared to the great mystery of double refraction."Ronchi "The Nature of Light" p. 255 ff. hardcover

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[2nd Light Horse Brigade]. ELLIS, Trooper J [likely 564 Private Thomas ELLIS]Biblio.com

Souvenir of Sinai & Palestine. Compiled by Tpr. J. Ellis 7th L.H. cover title of an album of photographs

1919ref. 144745Egypt: Privately Published 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Egypt Privately Published circa 1919. Oblong folio an album containing 96 original gelatin silver photographs each approximately 66 × 110 mm loosely inserted behind window mounts each with a printed caption four to a page on both sides of 12 leaves. Burgundy cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover beneath the Rising Sun emblem; covers slightly worn with some tarnishing to the gilt; occasional inoffensive silvering-out; in excellent condition. A scarce self-published photographic record of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade in the Sinai and Palestine campaign from the Battle of Romani 3-5 August 1916 to the capture of Gaza 1-2 November 1917 by way of Al Arish Rafah Khan Yunis Deir al-Balah and Wadi Gaza. Apart from a dozen 'local colour' photographs all relate directly to actions of the ANZAC Mounted Division including snapshots taken in action ambulance and field hospital units troop movements captured Ottoman and German soldiers the daily life of Australian Light Horse men including horse races and surfing and railway and bridging projects. The lettering at the bottom corner of the cover has led institutional and trade cataloguers to attribute this album to 'Tpr. J. Ellis'. No Ellis appears in the nominal roll of the 7th Light Horse. However one 'T. Ellis' is listed as wounded in action in the official history of the regiment and a search of service records leads us to suggest that 564 Private Thomas Ellis is most likely the compiler and photographer. After enlisting with the 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance in December 1914 he served at Gallipoli. Attached to the 7th Light Horse Regiment also part of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade in August 1916 he was wounded in action soon after a gunshot wound to the neck before returning to active duty with the 7th Light Horse until the middle of 1918 at which point he returned to the 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance. The preponderance of photographs showing ambulance units would seem to support this attribution. The album must have been compiled for presentation to fellow Light Horse men in a period of leave most likely in Egypt between February and April 1919 or possibly afterwards in London. Comparison with other examples suggests that Ellis had identical tooling applied to a range of similar but not identical commercial albums accounting for the different appearance of the covers and mounts in other copies we have traced the mounts in this example have a Vidalon-lès-Annonay watermark. All copies have 'Sent by Name' inscribed on the front pastedown; although this is in a uniform hand it is not written by Ellis see his digitised service record for examples of his handwriting. Provenance: 'Sent by Lcpl. S. Vohr' is inscribed in ink on the front pastedown of this copy. Sophus Carl Vohr of Jamestown South Australia enlisted at Morphettville on 19 August 1914; his service number - 32 - is a reflection of his very early enlistment. A Gallipoli veteran he saw action in the Middle East with the 3rd Light Horse Regiment. Privately Published hardcover

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