David Brewster’s and William Herschel’s experiments on inflection that delivered the coup de grâce to Thomas Young’s ether distribution hypothesis

DOI10.1080/00033790.2023.2289535MaRDI QIDQ6672059zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 28 January 2025

Published in Annals of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2023.2289535

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03)

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Cites work

• A history of optics. From Greek antiquity to the nineteenth century
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• Thomas Young’s lectures at the Royal Institution

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