From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[31 May 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.22 (C: RS:HS 24.113)
Summary:
Writes to ask for clarification of HL's views on the dispersion of light.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Writes to ask for clarification of HL's views on the dispersion of light.
Has not seen the paper in the Smithsonian Institution, but believes the author is in error. Has looked at A. L. Cauchy's Dispersion Memoir, but thinks Baden Powell's paper presents a more distinct formula. Hopes to send in a few weeks the first volume of HL's [Observations Made at the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory at Trinity College, Dublin].
Comments that A. J. Fresnel's papers in the Annales de chimie are really incomplete sketches of theories, which he developed later. Theory clearly stated in [Felix] Billet's Traité d'optique physique. Friend of his at Trinity College has produced a peculiar liquid.