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The Optical Indicatrix and the Transmission of Light in Crystals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. Fletcher
L. Fletcher*
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British Museum, University College, Oxford
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Fresnel's representation of the laws of transmission of rays of light in biaxal crystals, by reference to the surface distinguished by his nsane, has long been regarded as one of the greatest achievements in the domain of Physical Science. In his memoir on Double Refraction, Fresnel proceeded as follows :—

1. He assumed that the transmission of a ray of light is effected by means of an elastic ether vibrating transversely to its direction.

To the ether is thus assigned a property not belonging to a perfectly fluid body in a state of rest : perfect fluidity of a body at rest involves incapacity of resistance to mere change of shape, and it is to such distortional resistance that transverse vibrations must be due.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 9 , Issue 44 , December 1891 , pp. 278 - 388
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1891

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