Notes to pages 161–173 301
- Peacock 1855 , 7, 22 – 23.
- Ibid. , 35 – 41; Robinson 2006 , 36 – 40.
- Cantor 2004 , 147 – 149.
- Regarding a Quaker doctor of the generation before Young, it was noted that “ music, dancing, the theatre,
the opera, wine, women and song, gambling, attendance at cock-fights, bull-baitings, race meetings, all the rough
hearty joys of the Englishman of the time were incompatible with the Quaker costume he wore ” ( Wood and
Oldham 1954 , 35). - Darrigol 2009 , 188n140; 2012, 167 – 168.
- Wood and Oldham 1954 , 49 – 50.
- Ibid. , 49.
- Peacock 1855 , 114.
- Ibid. , 115 – 120, at 118, 120.
- Ibid. , 121. Young himself attributed “ the ultimate extent of his uncle ’ s protection ” to Burke ’ s “ friendly and
indulgent ” interest and his “ good offices ” ( Hilts 1978 , 251). - Wood and Oldham 1954 , 50.
- Peacock 1855 , 129.
- Wood and Oldham 1954 , 65.
- Young 2002 , 4:613 – 631.
- See Euler 1837 , 1:34 – 56, 83 – 87, which first appeared in English in 1795, and Cantor 1983 , 117 – 123.
- The superb accounts in Darrigol 2009; 2012, 166 – 187, place Young in the larger context of this analogy.
- Young 2002 , 4:543.
- Ibid. For Euler ’ s statement of the analogy between sound and light, see Euler 1837 , 1:85.
- Newton ’ s rings appear even with incoherent light, thus allowing Young ’ s analogy with coherent musical
tones to go forward, whereas other optical setups would depend on the issue of coherence. The centrality of
coherence in Young ’ s thought is particularly emphasized in Kipnis 1991. - Young 2002 , 4:565; he discusses the history of the organ at 1:404.
- Ibid. , 4:627.
- Ibid. , 4:544. For Tartini, see Polzonetti 2001; for his combination tones, see Helmholtz 1954, 152 – 159.
- Ibid. , 4:627.
- Ibid. , 4:546 – 547.
- Jackson 2006 , 172 – 176.
- See Young 2002 , 4:562 – 572, here quoted at 562, 565 – 567; Pesic 2013c gives a detailed discussion of Young ’ s
treatment of this issue. - Young 2002 , 4:633.
- See Pesic 2005 , 167 – 169.
- Young 2002 , 4:633; for his optometer, see 575 – 577.
- For his “ Letter to Mr. Nicholson ... Respecting Sound and Light, ” see Young 2002 , 4:607 – 612; for “ On the
Theory of Light and Colours, ” see Young 2002 , 4:613 – 631. - “ On the Theory of Light and Colours ” ( Young 2002 , 4:618 – 620); see also Cantor 1970a.
- Young 2002 , 4:617. In his next paper, “ An Account of Some Cases of the Production of Colours, ” Young
will change these three primaries to red, green, and violet, whose ratios are as 7, 6, and 5, to meet Wollaston ’ s
corrections of the spectral ratios. - The Newton quote about “ the analogy of nature ” is cited at Young 2002 , 4:617; the following quotes come
from 618. - Young 2002 , 4:624 – 626 (emphasis in original). For the development of the technology of these gratings, see
Jackson 2000.