FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN.

Ueber die doppelte Strahlenbrechung.

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1831). In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 23, Elftes Stück. Pp. 305-560 (entire issue offered). With halftitlepae to vol. 23. Fresnel's paper: pp. 372-434 a. pp. 494-557 a. 1 folded engraved plate.

First German edition of Fresnel's importent "Second mémoir sur la double réflexion" (1827) in which he explains step by step his wave theory of light, culminating in the generation ofthe wave surface itself.

"The major novelty of this "second" memoir was its firm foundation of the theory in mechanics, a foundation that had a considerable impact after about 1830."(Buchwald "The Rise of the Wave Thory of Light", p. 286.

Order-nr.: 45068