302 Notes to pages 174–181
- See Hilts 1978 , 252.
- See Pesic 2006 ; see also Shapiro 1980.
- Young 2002 , 4:627.
- Ibid. , 4:624 – 626.
- See Pesic 2006.
- Young 2002 , 4:633 – 638.
- Ibid. , 4:624 – 626.
- Ibid. , 4:633. He also adduces “ coloured atmospherical halos ” and supernumerary rainbows as meteorological
examples of his colored fringes, writ large in the heavens; ibid. , 4:634 – 635, 643 – 645. - “ Experiments and Calculations Relative to Physical Optics ” ( Young 2002 , 4:639 – 648, at 639). See also
Mollon 2002 and Kipnis 1991. - Young 2002 , 4:624 – 626.
- Oddly, Young does not calculate the value of the incident wavelength of light for any of these cases, as he
had done in his 1801 paper for Newton ’ s rings and for the diffraction grating. Though some have therefore
questioned whether he really performed the measurements, the table shown seems perfectly definite, unless one
doubts that the numbers listed there really were observed by Young (rather than cooked up after the fact). See
Worrall 1976 ; cf. Kipnis 1991 , 118 – 124. Young may have thought it sufficient to show the consistency of his
new experiment with those of Newton, relying on his 1801 determination of wavelength from Newton ’ s rings
and diffraction gratings to establish that number ’ s value. - All quotes in this paragraph from Young 2002 , 4:645.
- See Jones 1975.
- Cited in Hilts 1978 , 252.
- Regarding Young ’ s work at the Royal Institution, see Peacock 1855 , 134 – 137, Cantor 1970b , and Robinson
2006 , 85 – 94. For details of his exposition of music and light in these lectures, see Pesic 2013c. - Young ’ s penchant for encyclopedism led him to contribute articles not just on optics but also on Egypt (a
seminal work in the beginnings of Egyptology), bridges, and tides, among many others; see Robinson 2006 ,
179 – 188, which discusses the reception of Young by the French school at 165 – 178. See also Arago 1832 ; Frankel
1976 ; James 1984. - For Malus and polarization, see Pesic 2005 , 84 – 89. See also Park 1997 , 252 – 253, 273 – 274, and especially
Darrigol 2012, 187 – 224. - Young 1855 , 383.
- Young 2002 , 380.
- Young 1855 , 383.
- For detailed discussion, including the work of Fresnel and Arago, see Buchwald 1989 , 205 – 232.
- Ibid. , 203 – 214.
- See Wood and Oldham 1954 , 186, quoted and echoed by Robinson 2006 , 173.
- Young 1855 , 1:412 – 417, at 414, 415.
- For Fresnel ’ s final understanding of transversality, see Buchwald 1989 , 228 – 231.
- See Gordon 1982 , 27 – 30; Buchwald and Josefowicz 2010, 316 – 327.
- Cited in Hilts 1978 , 254.
- For further references and details on topics discussed throughout this chapter, see Pesic 2013c.
12 Electric Sounds - Cited in Mautner and Miller 1952 , 225.
- Ibid. , 228.
- Lichtenberg 2000 , 180.