Note 774 — Chapter V · (continued 2)

In 1814, that is ten years after his great work was published, and about twenty years after it was begun, he writes from Paris: ‘My book on heat is better known’ here ‘than in England. I was even reminded of some passages in it which in England were considered as fanciful, but which the recent discoveries on the polarity of light have confirmed.’ Napier's Memoirs of Leslie, p. 28, prefixed to Leslie's Philosophical Treatises, edit. Edinb. 1838. Leslie died in 1832 (p. 40); and the decisive experiments of Forbes and Melloni were made between 1834 and 1836.