From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
30 October 1849
Source of text:
MM/14/64, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
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Invites CW to come out to Collingwood next week when some other friends are coming, too.
Is pleased CW is coming [see JH's 1849-6-29]; JH asks CW to bring some of his apparatus to do polarized light experiments.
Will visit JH next week. Describes machine CW will bring to illustrate undulatory theory of light.
Lists seven French and German works [1837-1847] on optical science. Comments on one. Quotes copyright law on reproducing passages from these.