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On Herschel's Condition and the Optical Cosine Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

G. C. Steward
G. C. Steward
Affiliation:
Gonville and Caius College
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§ 1. Sir John Herschel gave the condition which must be satisfied in order that a symmetrical optical system, free from spherical aberration for two conjugate axial points, may also be free from spherical aberration for two neighbouring and conjugate points upon the axis of the system; but Herschel's condition applies only to first order aberration, i.e. to aberration depending upon the cube of the inclination of the ray to the axis. Abbe shewed, later, that this condition could be included in a wider result, viz. that the spherical aberration, supposed zero, is stationary for axial variations provided that the incident and emergent rays for two conjugate axial points, associated with modified magnification m, satisfy the relation

where θ and θ′ are their initial and final inclinations to the axis; and by ‘modified’ magnification is meant the ratio of the reduced sizes of the image and object.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , April 1927 , pp. 703 - 712
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1927

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