Note 86 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
On the two theories the following maybe consulted:—Young, Supplement to Encyclopædia Britannica, article Chromatics; Fresnel, Supplément à la Traduction Française de la 5ième édition du Traité de Chimie de Thomson, par Riffault, Paris, 1822; Herschel’s Article, Light, in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, and the French Translation of it by Quetelet and Verhulst; Airy’s Tract on the Undulatory Theory, in his Tracts, 2nd edition, Cambridge, 1831; Powel, The Undulatory Theory applied to Dispersion, &c. p. 184; Lloyd’s Lectures, Dublin, 1836–41; Cauchy, Sur le Mouvement des Corps élastiques, Mémoires de l’Institut, 1827, vol. ix. p. 114; Théorie de la Lumière, Ibid. vol. x. p. 293; M’Cullagh, On Double Refraction, Ibid., vol. xvi.; Geometrical Propositions applied to the Wave Theory of Light, Ibid., vol. xvii.; Sir David Brewster’s papers in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Philosophical Magazine.