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‎De la Lumière. Mémoire de Augustin Fresnel‎

‎Paris. Armand Colin. 1914. Coll : Les Classiques de la Science. in-12. Br. 5 gravures dans le texte. 1 planche H.T. 132 p. Certain cahiers sont désolidarisés. Couv. défraichie. Note en tête du dos. ‎

‎Oeuvres complètes d'Augustin Fresnel publiées par Henri de Senarmont, Emile Verdet et Léonor Fresnel - 3 volumes (complet) , (1. Théorie de la lumière : Diffraction et interférences - Constitution et propriété de la lumière polarisée - Exposition systématique de la théorie des ondulations et controverses - Double réfraction - Questions diverses d'optique - 2. Mélanges et extraits (Notes sur les diverses questions de physique - Extraits de divers mémoires - Rapports académiques - 3. Correspondance scientifique avec le docteur Thomas Young eet varia - 4. Phares et appareils d'éclairage‎

‎Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York and London (Imprimerie Nationale) Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1965 Book condition, Etat : Bon relié, cartonnage éditeur, pleine toile bleu imprimée, pièce de titre noir au dos petit In-4 épais 3 vol. - 2595 pages‎

‎quelques figures dans le texte et 18 planches hors-texte à la fin du tome 3 (complet de toutes les planches) Premier reprint, 1965 de l'édition de l'Imprimerie Nationale parue successivement en 1866, 1868 et et 1870 "Contents, Chapitres : Volume 1. Avertissement des éditeurs, Introduction aux Oeuvres d'Augustin Fresnel par Emile Verdet, xcix (dont 90 pages d'introduction), Texte, 805 pages - Volume 2. Texte, 865 pages - Volume 3. Texte, Introduction aux mémoires, notes et fragments d'A. Fresnel sur les phares par Léonor Fresnel (58 pages), Note complémentaire sur le calcul des éléments d'optique des appareils lenticulaires d'Augustin Fresnel, lxxv, Texte, 751 pages, 1 tableau dépliante et 18 planches hors-texte en fin d'ouvrage dont une grande carte dépliante des côtes de France (complet) - Volume 1. Théorie de la lumière : 1.1. Diffraction et interférences - 1.2. Constitution et propriété de la lumière polarisée - Volume 2. - 1.3. Exposition systématique de la théorie des ondulations et controverses - 1.4. Double réfraction - 1.5. Questions diverses d'optique - 2. Mélanges et extraits (Notes sur les diverses questions de physique - Extraits de divers mémoires - Rapports académiques - 3. Correspondance scientifique (Avec le docteur Thomas Young et lettres relatives - Correspondances avec divers - Correspondance avec sa famille - Volume 3. Phares et appareils d'éclairage - Table analytique des 3 volumes - Augustin Jean Fresnel, né le 10 mai 1788 à Broglie et mort le 14 juillet 1827 à Ville-d'Avray, est un ingénieur et physicien français dont les recherches en optique ont conduit à l'acceptation définitive de la théorie ondulatoire de la lumière en remplacement de la théorie balistique qui s'était imposée depuis Newton. En s'appuyant sur les concepts émis par Christian Huygens à la fin du xviie siècle, et en procédant à ses propres expériences, il retrouva indépendamment les observations faites quelques années plus tôt par Thomas Young sur les interférences et leur donna les fondements physiques et mathématiques qui emportèrent l'adhésion des physiciens de son époque. Dans son Mémoire sur la diffraction de la lumière, Fresnel donna la première explication rationnelle du phénomène de la diffraction. Pour sa démonstration, il montra que l'addition de deux vibrations lumineuses de même fréquence pouvait être modélisée comme la composition de deux forces, c'est-à-dire de deux vecteurs, de grandeurs et directions différentes ? les vecteurs de Fresnel. En reconnaissant que la lumière est composée de vibrations transversales, Fresnel a expliqué la nature de la polarisation de la lumière, la biréfringence et la polarisation circulaire. Bien que Fresnel puisse être considéré comme un physicien théoricien ou physicien mathématicien, il n' a eu que peu de temps pour se consacrer à ses recherches fondamentales. Son métier était ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées. À ce titre, il a apporté des améliorations considérables à la luminosité des phares en inventant les lentilles à échelons, ou lentilles de Fresnel. Augustin Fresnel est mort à 39 ans. Malgré la brièveté de sa vie, l'excellence et l'importance de ses travaux ont tout de suite été reconnues par ses contemporains. Il a été élu membre de l'Académie des sciences de Paris en 1823, membre associé de la Royal Society en 1825 et a reçu la médaille Rumford sur son lit de mort en 1827. Humphrey Loyd, professeur de physique au Trinity College à Dublin, considérait que la théorie ondulatoire de Fresnel était ?"" la plus noble invention qui ait jamais honoré le domaine des sciences physiques, à la seule exception du système de l'Univers de Newton."" (source : Wikipedia) - Marcel Émile Verdet, né le 13 mars 1824 à Nîmes et mort le 3 juin 1866 à Avignon, est un physicien français, maître de conférences de physique à l'École normale supérieure durant 18 ans." Bel exemplaire complet en 3 volumes homogènes du reprint des oeuvres complètes d'Augustin Fresnel chez Johnson Reprint en 1965 (la première édition est parue en 1866, 1868 et 1870 par l'Imprimerie Nationale), le bord des cartonnages est un peu jauni, sans gravité, les 3 reliures sont sinon en très bon état, intérieur très frais et propre, quelques rousseurs sur les tranches centrales n'affectant pas l'intérieur, papier de qualité, très frais, bien complet des 18 planches hors-texte à la fin du tome 3 et du tableau dépliant. (le bord de quelques planches est à peine rogné sans aucune gravité, très discret). Les deux premiers volumes présentent la Théorie de la lumière ainsi qu'une abondante correspondance et des notes, le 3eme volume est consacré aux travaux de Fresnel sur les phares avec également de nombreuses lettres et notes.‎

‎Mémoire sur la Diffraction de la lumière, où l'on examine particululièrement le phénomène des franges colorées que présentent les ombres des corps éclairés par un point lumineux. - Extrait d'une Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Arago, sur l'influence de ...‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1816-25. Bound in 2 fine recent hmorocco. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Redigées par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago"", Tome I, IV, IX, X, XI, XV, XVII, XX, XXI, XXIII, XXVIII and XXIX. Some memoirs with scattered brownspots. All but volume 15 with the orig. titlepages to the volumes. Vol. XV having instead of the titlepage, a sample of the orig. printed wrappers, December issue 1820. Bound at end of volume 2. The memoir, no. 25a below is inserted at the end of volume 2. Some of the memoirs having textillustrations. Some versos of titlepages with stamps.‎

‎First appearances of this groundbreaking series of papers and memoirs in which Fresnel established the scientific basis for the wave theory of light and gave the theoretical framework for explaining, in the context of his theory of the transversal nature of lightwaves, the phenomena of double refraction, refraction, dispersion, polarization, interference, diffraction patterns, diffraction fringes as light spreads around objects, etc. He developed mathematically the hypothesis of the wave nature of light and he demonstrates its conformity with experience. His study of light was a dynamic interplay between theory and observation, between mathematics and experiment. - The offered series also comprises the contributions from Arago and the rapports from The French Academy's committees by Ampère, Biot and Fourier - see below nos. 6,11,14,15,a.nd 18.""From the point of view of method, his investigations extended from the manual operations of the laboratory to the most abstract mathematical analyses. Few physicists since Newton had been so versatile.""(Silliman in ""Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences"", vol. 4, p. 155.).""The wave-thory at this time was still encumbered with difficulties. Diffraction was not satisfactorily explained" for polarization no explanation of any kind was forthcoming the Huygenian construction appeared to require two different luminiferous media within double refracting bodies and the universality of that construction had been impugned by Brewster's discovery of biaxial crystals. The upholders of the emission theory, emboldened by the success of Laplace's theory of double refraction, thought the time ripe for their final triunph and as a step to this, in March 1817 they proposed Diffration as the subject of the Academy's prize for 1818. Their expectation was disappointed" and the successful memoir afforded the first of a series of reverses of which, in the short space of seven years, the corpuscular theory was completely owerthrown. The author was Augustin Fresnel...""(Whittaker ""A History of the Theories of Aether & Electricity"", vol. 1, p.107 ff.).""This concept of transverse waves met with the greatest hostility from the scientists of the day, who could not imagine an extremely fluid and rarified ether which at the same time possessed the mechanical properties of a rigid body. Even Arago admitted that he could not follow the exuberant engineer in his ideas. ButFresnel was convinced that at last he had the key to many mysteries, and with his model of waves he gave a full clarification of the phenomena of polarization. With insuperable precision he explained a long series of extremely complicated experiments, such as those of chromatic polarization that Arago himself had discovered by chance in 1811, and which the followers of Newton could not explain in spite of all their efforts. Following this line Fresnel reached the synthesis which is his masterpiece....we must recall the final interpretation that he gave of the famous phenomenon of partial reflection by transparent surfaces, that simple phenomenon which until then had puzzled Grimaldi, Newton, and Huygens, and which in Malus's experiments had unexpectedly acquired a special importencee as it had been compared to the great mystery of double refraction.""(Ronchi ""The Nature of Light"", p. 255 ff.).Comprising:1. Mémoire sur la Diffraction de la lumière, où l'on examine particululièrement le phénomène des franges colorées que présentent les ombres des corps éclairés par un point lumineux. ""Ann.Chim.P."" Tome 1. 1816. With titlepage to vol. 1. Pp. 239-281 and 1 folded engraved plate.2. Extrait d'une Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Arago, sur l'influence de la chaleur dans les couleurs développées par la polarisation.Tome 4. 1817. With titlepage to vol. 4. Pp. 298-300.3. Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Arago, sur l'influence du mouvement terrestres dans quelques phénomènes terrestres dans quelques phénoménes d'optique. Tome 9. 1818. With titlepage to vol. 18. Pp. 57-70.4. Note additionelle à la Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Arago, insérée dans le dernier Cahier des Annales. Tome 9. 1818. Pp. 286-287.5. FRESNEL & ARAGO. Sur l'Action que le rayons de lumiére polarisés exercent les uns sur les autres. Tome 10. 1819. With titlepage to vol. 10. Pp. 288-305. - Also with ""Extrait d'un ouvrage du P. Grimaldi intitulé: Traité physico-mathérmatique de la lumiere des couleurs et de l'iris"". Pp. 306-312.6. ARAGO. Rapport par M. Arago à l'Academie des Sciences, au nom de la Commission qui avait été chargée d'examiner les Mémoires envoyés au concours pour le prix de la diffraction. Tome 11. 1819. With titlepage to vol. 11. Pp. 5-30.7. Mémoire sur la Diffraction de la Lumiere. (Extrait). (This importent Price-Memoir was only printed in full in 1826). Tome 11. 1819. Pp. 246-296.8. Suite Du Mémoire sur la Diffraction de la Lumière. Tome 11. 1819. Pp. 337-378. + Note sur des Essais ayant pour but de décomposer l'eau avec un aimant. Pp. 219-222.9. Note sur des Essais ayant pour but de décomposer l'eau avec un aimant. Tome 15. 1820. Pp. 219-222. No titlepage to vol. 15.10. Résume d'un Mémoire sur la Reflexion de la lumière. Tome 15. 1820. Pp. 379-386. Tome 15 is here represented with the last issue of the year (Decembre 1820, pp. 337-448) and instead of the titlepage having the orig. printed wrappers (bound at end of the second volume).11. ARAGO & AMPÈRE. Rapport fait à l'Academie des Sciences, le lundi 4 juin 1821, sur un Mémoire de M. Fresnel relatif aux couleurs des lames cristallisées douées de la double réfraction. Tome 17. 1821. Titlepage to vol. 17. Pp. 80-102.12. Note sur le Calcul des teintes que la polarisation développe dans les lames cristallisées. Tome 17. 1821. Pp. 102-111.13. IIe Note sur la Coloration des lames cristallisées. Tome 17. 1821. Pp. (167-)196.14. BIOT. Remarques de M. Biot sur un Rapport lu, le 4 juin 1821, à l'Academie des Sciences, par MM. Arago et Ampere. Tome 17. 1821. Pp. 225-258.15. ARAGO. Examen des Remarques de M. Biot. Tome 17. 1821. Pp. 258-273. 16. Addition à la IIe Note insérée dans le Cahier précédent, par M. Fresnel. Tome 17. 1821. Pp. 312-315.17. Note sur les remarques de M. Biot, publiées dans le Cahier précédent. Tome 17. 1821. Pp. 393-403.18. FOURIER, AMPÈRE ET ARAGO. Rapport fait à l'Academie sur un Mémoire de M. Fresnel, relatif à la double réfraction. Commission: Fourier, Ampère et Arago. Tome 20, 1822. With titlepage to vol. 20. Pp. 337-344.19. Note sur la double réfraction du verre comprimé. Tome 20. 1822. Pp. 376-383.20. Explication de la Réfraction dans le système des ondes. Tome 21, 1822. Titlepage to vol. 21. Pp. 225-241. + LAGRANGE. Sur la Théorie de la lumière d'Huygens. Pp. 241-246.21. Sur l'Ascension des nuages dans l'atmosphère. Tome 21, 1822. Pp. 260-263.22. Réponse de M. Fresnel à la Lettre de M. Poisson insérée dans le tome XXII des Annales, p. 270. Tome 23, 1823. Titlepage to vol. 23. Pp. 32-49.23. Note sur le Phénomène des anneaux colorés. Tome 23, 1823. Pp. 129-134.24. Suite de la Réponse de M.A. Fresnel à la Lettre de M. Poisson. Tome 23, 1823. Pp. 113-122.25. Extrait d'un Mémoire sur la double Réfraction particulière que présente le cristal de roche dans la irection de son axe. Tome 28, 1825. Titlepage to vol. 28. Pp. 147-161. + (25 a) Extrait d'un Mémoire sur la double Réfraction. Tome 28, 1825. Pp. 263-279. (According to Buchwald ""The Rise of the Wave Theory opf Light"" , p. 462, these 2 extracts composes the entire memoire.26. Note sur la Répulsion que des corps échauffés exercent les uns sur les autres à des distances sensibles. (Lue à l'Institut le 13 juin 1825). Tome 29, 1825. Titlepage to vol. 29. Pp. 57-62.27. Extrait d'un Mémoire sur la Loi des modifications imprimées à la lumière polarisée par sa réflexion totale dans l'intérieur des corps transparens. Tome 29, 1825. Pp. 175-187. (This paper was never printed in full).‎

‎Mémoire Sur la Diffraction de la lumière, où l'on examine particulièrement le phénomène des franges colorées que présentent les ombres des corps éclairés par un point lumineux. (Memoir on the Diffraction of Light....)‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1816) No wrappers. In: 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Tome I, Sec. Series, Cahier Mars 1816. With htitle to vol. I. Pp. 225-336 and 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 239-281. The plate shows the diffraction patterns.‎

‎First appearance of Fresnel's landmark mémoir - this mémoir was his first paper on diffraction, and was later given the prize of the French Academy and published in Memoires de l'Academie in 1826 in full, together with his further developments of his light theory - in which he for the first time explained the causes of the diffraction effects as the mutual interference of the secondary waves emitted by those portions of the original wave-front which have not been obstructed by the diffraction screen. His methods of calculation utilized the principles of both Huygens and Young and he summed the effects due to different portions of the same primary wave-front. The memoir records also Fresnel's famous mirror-experiment.""In broad context Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successfull assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-centurty energetics."" (DSB V, p. 171).""Augustin Fresnel seems to have adopted a wave theory of light from the very beginning of his studies. His first paper, presented to the Academy...in October 1815, and entitled ""La Diffraction de la Lumiere"" (the paper offered), was written after a long correspondance with Arago, who had promised Fresnel his full support. ""The wave theory"" Fresnel wrote, ""is well suited to explaining the complicated propagation of light phenomena, and since, as we know from the case of sound, waves can surcomvent obstacles, I decided to make a study of shadows.....It is because they cross in regions common to them both that two pencils of rays can produce fringes. hence it follows that the vibrations of rays which cross at very small angles can cancel out whenever crests of one correspond to the throughs of the other.""‎

‎Ueber die Diffraction des Lichts. (Mèmoires de l'acad. roy. des Scences etc. T. V. p. 339). (+) Auszug aus einer Abhandlung über die Reflexion des Lichts. (Ann. de chim. et de phys. T. XV p.379).‎

‎(Leipzig, Joh. Ambrosius Barth, 1833). Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Very light wear to spine ends and edges. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Jahrgang 1833 (Bd. 30), Ergäntzungsheft. 376 pp. a. 2 folded engraved plates. 2 small stamps to p.1 and a small stamp to verso of plates. (Entire volume offered). Fresnel's papers: pp. 100-255 a. pp. 255-261. Clean and fine.‎

‎First German edition of Fresnel's epoch-making memoir from the French Academy (1826) and incorporating his experimental results from the years 1815-19, in which he for the first time explained the causes of the diffraction effects as the mutual interference of the secondary waves emitted by those portions of the original wave-front which have not been obstructed by the diffraction screen. His methods of calculation utilized the principles of both Huygens and Young and he summed the effects due to different portions of the same primary wave-front. He demonstrates that the transverse wave theory of light explains the observed phenomena of reflection, refraction, interference, polarization, difraction patterns, diffraction fringes etc., making a strong case for the theory of the transverse nature of light waves. The memoir records also Fresnel's famous mirror-experiment.""In broad contect Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successfull assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-centurty energetics."" (DSB V, p. 171).""Augustin Fresnel seems to have adopted a wave theory of light from the very beginning of his studies. His first paper, presented to the Academy...in October 1815, and entitled ""La Diffraction de la Lumiere"" (the paper offered), was written after a long correspondance with Arago, who had promised Fresnel his full support. ""The wave theory"" Fresnel wrote, ""is well suited to explaining the complicated propagation of light phenomena, and since, as we know from the case of sound, waves can surcomvent obstacles, I decided to make a study of shadows.....It is because they cross in regions common to them both that two pencils of rays can produce fringes. hence it follows that the vibrations of rays which cross at very small angles can cancel out whenever crests of one correspond to the throughs of the other.""The voume contains further a notable paper by AMPÈRE ""Bestimmung der krummen Fläche der Lichtswellen in einem Mittel, dessen Elasticität verschieden ist nach den drei Hauptrichtungen, d.h. nach debjenigen, in welchem die von der Elasticität erregte Kraft in desselben Richtung wirkt, in der die Theilchen dieses Mittels verschoben wurden."" First German edition. Pp. 262-295.‎

‎Betrachtungen über die Polarisation des Lichts. (+) Ueber die Gesetzt der Modificationen, welche die Reflexion dem polarisirten Lichte einprägt. (2 Papers).‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1831). Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Bd. 22 (98) Fünftes Stück. Pp. 1-160. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's papers: pp. 68-89 and pp. 90-125. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance in German of two importent memoirs on polarized light, refraction and reflexion of light.The first paper unites two of his earlier papers on polarization as an introduction to the second paper. Having mastered the wave theory, Fresnel tackled the phenomena of polarization and of double refraction, and he obtained results which amazed the scientific world. These results survived the criticism of his contemporaries and of his succcessors, and are still accepted today.The second paper offered contains the first German edition of the importent paper in which Fresnel formulates a theory of reflection and refraction referring them to the dynamical properties of the luminiferous media and stating the two laws that bears his name, the ""Sine-law"" and the ""Tangent-law"".This memoir was for some time considered lost, it was presented to the Academy in 1823, but found later in the papers of Fourier. ""Diese Abhandlung ist bereits am 7. Jan. 1823 in der Pariser Academie vorgelesen, nach der Zeit aber abhanden gekommen, und erst kürzlich unter den Papieren des verwigten Fourier wieder aufgefunden""(Editors footnote).In the memoir ""He adopts Young's principle, that reflection and refraction are due to differences in the inertia of the aether in different material bodies, and supposes (as in the memoir on aberration) that the inertia is proportional to the inverse square of the velocity of propagation of light in the medium. The conditions which he proposes to satisfy at the interface between two media are that the displacements of the aadjacent molecules, resolved parallell to this interface, shall be equal in the two media"" and that the energy of the reflwected and refracted waves together shall be equal to that of the incident wave.""(Whittaker ""A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity"" I, p.123).‎

‎Mémoire sur la Diffraction de la lumiere, où l'on examine particulierement le phènomene des franges colorées que présentent les ombres des corps éclairés par un point lumineux. (Ce Mémoire a été déposé a l'Institut le 33 octobre 1815). (+) Mémoire...‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1816, 1819. Bound in 2 contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spines. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"" Series 2, Tome 1 a. Tome 11. Entire volumes offered.(4),452 pp. a. 3 engraved folded plates. + 448 pp. a. 3 folded engraved plates. Fresnel's papers: pp. 239-281 a. pp. 246-296 a. pp. 337-378. Arago's paper: pp. 5-30. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎First appearance of Fresnel's landmark papers on the phenomena of diffraction, presenting Fresnel's first priinted paper on the subject. These two papers won the Academy's prize for 1818 and were later expanded and published as a long memoir in 1826. The first paper offered initiated the attack on the corpuscular theory of light, which was completely owerthrown by a series of succesfull papers by Fresnel the next few years. In the second paper Fresnel summed up all his work prior to this date in completed form. The paper is called ""extract"", but the longer memoir was not published until 1826. The paper is A CLASSIC IN PHYSICS.""In broad context Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successfull assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-centurty energetics."" (DSB V, p. 171).Diffraction arises because of the way in which waves propagate" this is described by the Huygens-Fresnel principle. The propagation of a wave can be visualized by considering every point on a wavefront as a point source for a secondary radial wave. The subsequent propagation and addition of all these radial waves form the new wavefront. When waves are added together, their sum is determined by the relative phases as well as the amplitudes of the individual waves, an effect which is often known as wave interference. The summed amplitude of the waves can have any value between zero and the sum of the individual amplitudes. Hence, diffraction patterns usually have a series of maxima and minima. (Wikipedia)-The volumes contains many other importent papers by Arago & Petit, Vaugelin, Humphrey Davy, d'Arcet, Laplace, Gay-Lussac, Alex. v. Humboldt, Thenard, Will. Prout, Stromeyer, Berzelius, Brewster, Theod. de Saussure, Ampère etc.‎

‎Annales de Chimie et de Physique. 1821 - Volume 2 : Tome Dix-Septième [ Tome 17 - Tome XVII ] : Rapport fait à l'Académie des Sciences par M. Arago, le lundi 4 juin 1821, sur un Mémoire de M. Fresnel relatif aux couleurs des lames cristallisées douées de la double réfraction - Notes sur le calcul des teintes que la polarisation développe dans les lames cristallines (Fresnel) ; IIe Note (Fresnel) ; Remarques de M. Biot sur un Rapport lu, le 4 juin 1821, à l'Académie des Sciences, par Mm. Arago et Ampère ; Examen des remarques de M. Biot (Ampère) ; Sur la manière d'analyser les mines de nickel, et sur une nouvelle combinaison du nickel avec l'arsenic et le soufre (Berzelius) ; Note sur le sulfate de Quinine (Robiquet) ; Analyse comparée des excrémens d'un rossignol du coeur d'un boeuf dont il a été nourri (Braconnot) ; Sur la pierre météorique qui est tombée dans le département de l'Ardèche, le 15 juin 1821 ; etc...‎

‎1 vol. in-8 cartonnage marbré de l'époque, Chez Crochard, Paris, 1821, 448 pp. avec un tableau dépliant et une planche dépliante. Contient notamment : Rapport fait à l'Académie des Sciences par M. Arago, le lundi 4 juin 1821, sur un Mémoire de M. Fresnel relatif aux couleurs des lames cristallisées douées de la double réfraction - Notes sur le calcul des teintes que la polarisation développe dans les lames cristallines (Fresnel) ; IIe Note (Fresnel) ; Remarques de M. Biot sur un Rapport lu, le 4 juin 1821, à l'Académie des Sciences, par Mm. Arago et Ampère ; Examen des remarques de M. Biot (Ampère) ; Sur la manière d'analyser les mines de nickel, et sur une nouvelle combinaison du nickel avec l'arsenic et le soufre (Berzelius) ; Note sur le sulfate de Quinine (Robiquet) ; Analyse comparée des excrémens d'un rossignol du coeur d'un boeuf dont il a été nourri (Braconnot) ; Sur la pierre météorique qui est tombée dans le département de l'Ardèche, le 15 juin 1821 ; etc...‎

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‎Rare exemplaire du tome 17 des "Annales de Chimie et de Physique". Etat très satisfaisant (cartonnage lég. frotté avec petit accroc en coiffe sup. et notamment à un mors en coiffe sup.)‎

‎Oeuvres complètes d'Augustin Fresnel (3 Tomes - Complet) [ Edition originale ]‎

‎Publiés par MM. Henri de Sénarmont, Emile Verdet et Léonor Fresnel, 3 vol. fort in-4 reliure de l'époque demi-chagrin rouge, dos à 4 nerfs dorés orné, fers de prix du "Concours Général des Lycées et Collèges des Départements 1878", toutes tranches dorées, Imprimerie Impériale, Paris, 1866-1868-1870, Tome I : 2 ff., XCIX-804 pp. avec portrait de l'auteur sur chine appliqué en frontispice et un tableau dépliant ; Tome II : 2 ff., 864 pp. et 1 f. ; Tome III : 2 ff., LXXV-751 pp. avec 19 planches (parfois dépliantes ou en couleurs) ; ‎

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‎Cette publication fondamentale des oeuvres complètes du physicien Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827) rassemble une grande part de travaux alors inédit qui "forment plus de la moitié de la présente édition". Dans son "Mémoire sur la diffraction de la lumière", Fresnel fournit la première explication rationnelle du phénomène de la diffraction. Bon exemplaire bien relié (plats lég. frottés, qq. rouss.). This fundamental publication of the complete works of the physicist Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827) brings together a large part of then unpublished works, which "form more than half of the present edition". In his "Mémoire sur la diffraction de la lumièret", Fresnel provides the first rational explanation of the phenomenon of diffraction. "Provided with a detailed analytical table of contents, this comprehensive edition lacks only the important notes on electrodynamics addresses to Ampère" (DSB, V, 165-171).‎

‎Mémoire sur la Loi des modifications que la réflexion imprime à la lumière polarisée. (Lu a l'Academie, le 7 janvier 1823).‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1831. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 46, Cahier 3. Titlepage to vol. 46. Pp. 225-336 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 225-264.‎

‎Fist printing of this importent paper in which Fresnel formulates a theory of reflection and refraction referring them to the dynamical properties of the luminiferous media and stating the two laws that bears his name, the ""Sine-law"" and the ""Tangent-law"".This memoir was for some time considered lost, it was presented to the Academy in 1823, but found later in the papers of Fourier. ""Ce Mémoire, qu'on ecroyait égaré, vient d'étre retrouvé dans les papiers de M. Fourier. Comme il n'est connu que par des extraits tout-è-fait insuffisand (voyez Ann.. t. XXIX, p. 175), nous nous empressons d'en enrichir les Annales.""(Editor's footnote).In the memoir ""He adopts Young's principle, that reflection and refraction are due to differences in the inertia of the aether in different material bodies, and supposes (as in the memoir on aberration) that the inertia is proportional to the inverse square of the velocity of propagation of light in the medium. The conditions which he proposes to satisfy at the interface between two media are that the displacements of the aadjacent molecules, resolved parallell to this interface, shall be equal in the two media"" and that the energy of the reflwected and refracted waves together shall be equal to that of the incident wave.""(Whittaker ""A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity"" I, p.123).‎

‎Ueber die durch polarisirtes Lichts in homogenen Flüssigkeiten hervorgebrachten Farben. (...der Pariser Academie am 30. März 1818 vorgelegt). (+) Ueber die Reflexion des Lichts. (Der Pariser Academie vorgelegt am 15. Nov. 1819). (2 Mémoirs).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1848. Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Ergänzungsbd., Bd. II, Stück 2. Titlepage to Erg-Bd. 2. Pp. 193-368. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's papers: pp. 304-331, textillustr. a. pp. 332-355, textillustr. A stamp on titlepage and verso of. Clean and fine.‎

‎First German editions of two importent memoirs on polarization and reflexion of light by ""the founder of the new optics"". The French versions of the papers appeared in ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique""(1846).The first paper takes on a central role in Fresnel's dealing with polarization in general and specially with chromatioc polarization and the explaining the phenomena that arises when light travels through crystals. The paper was read at the Academy on march 30, was not printed at the time as it disappeared and only turned up many years later, around 1845, when it was found in the papers of Fresnel's brother. ""On croyait ou Mémoire perdu. Il a été retrouvé dans les papiers de M. Léonor Fresnel, frère de l'illustre académicien."" Thus, the offered paper is here PRINTED FOR THE FIRST TIME AND IN ITS FULL LENGHT (in the German version).The second paper deals with reflection and explains the different phenomena seen when light is reflected from glassplates having two surfaces parallel or with curvature, interference of reflected waves and the measure of their different wavelenghts, all explained according to the wave theory of light. The paper offered is for the FIRST TIME PRINTED IN ITS FULL LENGHT (in the German version), as it only appeared in the résumé-form in 1820 ""Résumé d'un Mémoire sur la Réflexion de la lumière"" (Annales de Chimie et de Physique, tome 15, pp. 379-386).""As it was, Fresnel succeeded fully in attaining his explicit goal, the establishment of the wave conception of light. Not long after his death scientific opinion definitely shiftedin favor of waves and opened up the pathway leading to the deeper insight of Maxwell. In broad context Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successfull assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-centurty energetics."" (DSB V, p. 171).‎

‎Mémoire sur la Loi des modifications que la réflexion imprime à la lumière polarisée. (Lu a l'Academie, le 7 janvier 1823).‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1831. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 46, Cahier 3. Titlepage to vol. 46. Pp. 225-336 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 225-264. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎Fist printing of this importent paper in which Fresnel formulates a theory of reflection and refraction referring them to the dynamical properties of the luminiferous media and stating the two laws that bears his name, the ""Sine-law"" and the ""Tangent-law"".‎

‎Lettre de M. FRESNEL à M. ARAGO sur l'influence du mouvement terrestre dans quelques phénomènes d'optique - NOTE ADDITIONNELLE à la LETTRE de M. FRESNEL à M. ARAGO insérée dans le dernier cahier des annales ; in Annales de chimie et de physique, tome 9, pp. 57/66 & 286/287 -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Crochard, 1818, un volume in 8 relié en demi-maroquin vert, dos orné de filets (reliure de l'époque), 448pp., 1 planche dépliante ; LA LETTRE DE FRESNEL A ARAGO ET LA NOTE ADDITIONNELLE OCCUPENT LES PAGES 57 À 66 ET 286 À 287‎

‎--- EDITION ORIGNALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- Fresnel apporta la preuve que la théorie ondulatoire peut seule expliquer les phénomènes d'interférences lumineuses ---- "Fresnel succeeded fully in attaining his explicit goal, the establishment of the wave conception of light. Not long after his death scientific opinion definitely shifted in favor of waves and opened up the pathway leading to the deeper insights of Maxwell. In troad context Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successful assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-century energetics". (DSB V)**68810/6881/o7ar‎

‎Un régiment à travers l'histoire. Le 76e, ex-1er léger.‎

‎ Paris, Flammarion, 1894. Fort in 4, 752-(4) pp., reliure demi-chagrin noir, dos orné, plats de couverture illustrée conservés. Initiales dorées en pied du dos : S.P. ‎

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‎Imposant ouvrage illustré de drapeaux et uniformes en couleurs (Gostiaux), de cartes et croquis, de portraits, et de gravures anciennes et reproductions en phototypie. Bel exemplaire. * Livre lourd (4,5 kg) * Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s). * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve. ‎

‎Mémoire Sur les couleurs développées dans des Fluides homogènes par la lumière polarisée. (Presenté à l'Academie, le 30 mars 1818) (+) Mémoire sur la Réflexion de la Lumiere. (Presenté à l'Academie, le 15 novembre 1819). (2 Memoirs).‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1846. No wrappers as extracted from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Tome 17, Troisieme Série. Titlepage to tome 17. Pp. 172-199 a. 1 engraved plate + pp. 316-338, textillustr. Brownspots to titlepage and some browspots to the second memoir.‎

‎First editions of two importent memoirs on polarization and reflexion of light by ""the founder of the new optics"".The first paper takes on a central role in Fresnel's dealing with polarization in general and specially with chromatioc polarization and the explaining the phenomena that arises when light travels through crystals. The paper was read at the Academy on march 30, was not printed at the time as it disappeared and only turned up many years later, around 1845, when it was found in the papers of Fresnel's brother. ""On croyait ou Mémoire perdu. Il a été retrouvé dans les papiers de M. Léonor Fresnel, frère de l'illustre académicien."" Thus, the offered paper is here PRINTED FOR THE FIRST TIME AND IN ITS FULL LENGHT.The second paper deals with reflection and explains the different phenomena seen when light is reflected from glassplates having two surfaces parallel or with curvature, interference of reflected waves and the measure of their different wavelenghts, all explained according to the wave theory of light. The paper offered is for the FIRST TIME PRINTED IN ITS FULL LENGHT, as it only appeared in the résumé-form in 1820 ""Résumé d'un Mémoire sur la Réflexion de la lumière"" (Annales de Chimie et de Physique, tome 15, pp. 379-386).""As it was, Fresnel succeeded fully in attaining his explicit goal, the establishment of the wave conception of light. Not long after his death scientific opinion definitely shiftedin favor of waves and opened up the pathway leading to the deeper insight of Maxwell. In broad context Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successfull assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-centurty energetics."" (DSB V, p. 171).‎

‎Rapport fait à l'Academie des Sciences, le lundi 4 juin 1821, sur un Mémoire de M. Fresnel relatif aux couleurs des lames cristallisées douées de la double réfraction. (Arago and Ampère). (+) Note sur le Calcul des teintes que la polarisation dévelop...‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1821. 8vo. Uncut and unopened in orig. printed wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Redigées par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago"", Tome XVII - Mai Issue. Pp. 1-112 including titlepage to vol. 17. - The rapport: pp. 80-102. Fresnel's paper: pp. 102-111. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of the joint report. This investigation of Fresnel's paper by Arago (mainly written by Arago as a polemic directed at Biot) and Ampère is a central document in the rather bitter confrontation between Arago and Biot on the wave theory of light put forward by Fresnel.Fresnel's paper is the first part of three of his ""Calcul des teintes"".‎

‎Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Arago, sur l'influence du mouvement terrestre dans quelques phénomènes d'optique. (+) Note additionnelle à Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Atago, insérée dans le dernier Cahier des Annales.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1818. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 9, Cahier 1 a. 3. Titlepage to vol. 9. Pp. 5-112 a. 1 folded engraved plate + pp. 225-336. (The entire issues offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 57-66 a. pp. 286-287.‎

‎First printing of Fresnel's importent memoir on the aberration effect from a moving earth.""In the same year in which the memoir on diffraction was submitted, Fresnel published an investigation of the influence of the earth's motion on light (the paper offered).....if we suppose the aether surrounding the earth to be at rest and unaffected by the earth's motion of the telescope, which we may suppose directed to the true place of the star, and the image of the star will therefore be displaced from the central spider-line at the focus by a distance equal to that which the earth describes while the light is travelling through the telescope. This agrees with what is actually observed.""(Whittaker ""A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity"" I, pp. 108-9).‎

‎Note sur le Calcul des teintes que la polarisation développe dans les lames cristallisées. (+) IIe Note sur la Coloration des lames cristallisées. (+) Addition à la IIe Note insérée dans le Cahier précédent, par M. Fresnel. (+) Note sur les remarque...‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1821. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Weak crack in fronthinge (but still firm). In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Redigées par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago"". 448 pp., 1 folded plate. Some browning to htitle, title-page and last leaf, otherwise clean. Fresnel's papers: pp. 102-111, 167-196, 312-315 a. 393-403. Biot, Arago, Ampee: pp. 80-102, 225-258 a. 258-273.‎

‎First printing of these milestone papers in which Fresnel finally established the transversal nature of lightwaves. The volume also having the notable rapports and notes by Arago, Biot, Ampere exhibiting the famous controversy over the subject.""This concept of transverse waves met with the greatest hostility from the scientists of the day, who could not imagine an extremely fluid and rarified ether which at the same time possessed the mechanical properties of a rigid body. Even Arago admitted that he could not follow the exuberant engineer in his ideas. But Fresnel was convinced that at last he had the key to many mysteries, and with his model of waves he gave a full clarification of the phenomena of polarization. With insuperable precision he explained a long series of extremely complicated experiments, such as those of chromatic polarization that Arago himself had discovered by chance in 1811, and which the followers of Newton could not explain in spite of all their efforts. Following this line Fresnel reached the synthesis which is his masterpiece....we must recall the final interpretation that he gave of the famous phenomenon of partial reflection by transparent surfaces, that simple phenomenon which until then had puzzled Grimaldi, Newton, and Huygens, and which in Malus's experiments had unexpectedly acquired a special importencee as it had been compared to the great mystery of double refraction.""(Ronchi ""The Nature of Light"", p. 255 ff.).‎

‎Ueber das Licht (i.e. French: ""Sur la Lumière""). ‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1825. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie"", 1825, band 3. Entire volume offered. Stamps to verso of title-page and verso of plates. Wear to extremities, especially upper part of spine. Internally fine and clean. (Fresnel:) 89-128"" 303-328 pp. (Entire volume:) 10, 476 pp. + 3 plates. ‎

‎First German translation of Fresnel’s landmark work “Sur la Lumière"" from 1822. Here Fresnel established the scientific basis for the wave theory of light and gave the theoretical framework for explaining, in the context of his theory of the transversal nature of lightwaves, the phenomena of double refraction, refraction, dispersion, polarization, interference, diffraction patterns, diffraction fringes as light spreads around objects, etc. He developed mathematically the hypothesis of the wave nature of light and he demonstrates its conformity with experience. His study of light was a dynamic interplay between theory and observation, between mathematics and experiment. - ""From the point of view of method, his investigations extended from the manual operations of the laboratory to the most abstract mathematical analyses. Few physicists since Newton had been so versatile.""(Silliman in ""Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences"", vol. 4, p. 155.). ""The wave-thory at this time was still encumbered with difficulties. Diffraction was not satisfactorily explained" for polarization no explanation of any kind was forthcoming the Huygenian construction appeared to require two different luminiferous media within double refracting bodies and the universality of that construction had been impugned by Brewster's discovery of biaxial crystals. The upholders of the emission theory, emboldened by the success of Laplace's theory of double refraction, thought the time ripe for their final triunph and as a step to this, in March 1817 they proposed Diffration as the subject of the Academy's prize for 1818. Their expectation was disappointed" and the successful memoir afforded the first of a series of reverses of which, in the short space of seven years, the corpuscular theory was completely owerthrown. The author was Augustin Fresnel...""(Whittaker ""A History of the Theories of Aether & Electricity"", vol. 1, p.107 ff.). ""This concept of transverse waves met with the greatest hostility from the scientists of the day, who could not imagine an extremely fluid and rarified ether which at the same time possessed the mechanical properties of a rigid body. Even Arago admitted that he could not follow the exuberant engineer in his ideas. ButFresnel was convinced that at last he had the key to many mysteries, and with his model of waves he gave a full clarification of the phenomena of polarization. With insuperable precision he explained a long series of extremely complicated experiments, such as those of chromatic polarization that Arago himself had discovered by chance in 1811, and which the followers of Newton could not explain in spite of all their efforts. Following this line Fresnel reached the synthesis which is his masterpiece....we must recall the final interpretation that he gave of the famous phenomenon of partial reflection by transparent surfaces, that simple phenomenon which until then had puzzled Grimaldi, Newton, and Huygens, and which in Malus's experiments had unexpectedly acquired a special importencee as it had been compared to the great mystery of double refraction.""(Ronchi ""The Nature of Light"", p. 255 ff.).‎

‎Annales de Chimie et de Physique. 1822 - Volume 1 : Tome 20 ,incomplet ,3 fascicules : juin,juillet,aout ‎

‎ 1822 Chez Crochard, Paris, 1822,en 3 fascicules brochés,tres defraichis,pagination separée continue de 113 a 448 pp., avec une planches depliante ( la description des fameuses "lentilles de Fresnel"). ‎

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‎Contient notamment : Sur la vitesse du son (Laplace) - Sur la temperature produite par la condensation de la vapeur (Faraday) - Rapport fait a l'Academie sur un Memoire de M. Fresnel relatif a la double refraction - Note sur la double refraction du verre comprime (Fresnel) - Memoire sur la determination de la formule qui represente l'action mutuelle de deux portions infiniment petites de conducteurs voltaiques (Ampere) ; De la composition des sulfures alcalins (Berzelius) ; Notes sur la Comete de 1822 (Nicollet) ; Sur un aerolithe qui est tombe a Angers, departement de Maine-et-Loire, le 3 juin 1822 ; Memoire sur de nouveaux phenomenes de production de chaleur (Pouillet) ; Moyen de separer le fer des autres metaux (Herschel) ; Note sur un Alliage natif de nickel et d'antimoine (Vauquelin) ; etc.. ‎

‎Mémoire Sur l'Action que les rayons de lumière polarisés exercent les uns sur les autres. - [THE DISCOVERY THAT LIGHT VIBRATES TRANSVERSELY]‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1819. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with raised bands and gilt spine. Very light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of title-page and on verso of plates. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Tome X, 2. Series. 448 pp. a. 2 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Arago and Fresnel's paper: pp. 288-306.‎

‎First appearance of this seminal paper in which Arago and Fresnel described the experiments which demonstrated that light vibrates transversely to its direction of forward movement.""In a further letter to Arago, dated 29 April 1818 Young recurred to the subject of transverse vibrations, comparing light to the undulations of a cord agitated by one of its extremities. This letter was shown by Arago to Fresnel, who at once saw that it presented the true explanation of the non-interference of beams polarised in perpendicular planes, and that the latter effect could even be made the basis of a proof of the correctness of Young's hypothesis" for if the vibration of each beam be supposed resolved into three components, one along the ray and the other two at right angles to it, it is obvious from the Arago-Fresnel experiment that the components in the direction of the ray must vanish" in other words THAT THE VIBRATIONS WHICH CONSTITUTE LIGHT ARE EXECUTED IN THE WAVE-FRONT."" (Edmund Whittaker in ""A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity I"", p. 115). - Parkinson, Breakthroughs 1819 P. - Magie ""A Source Book in Physics, p. 325 ff.The volume contains another groundbreaking paper, in which THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ATOMIC WEIGHT AND ATOMIC HEAT WAS ESTABLISHED - THE ""LAW OF DULONG AND PETIT"".DULONG, (PIERRE) & (ALEXIS) PETIT. Recherches sur quelques points importans de la théorie de la chaleur. Vol. X, pp. 395-413. (In the volume offered).""They (Dulang and Petit) were concerned with the specific heats of elements"" but if these elements really existed as atoms, it seemed possible that there might be a connection between the weight of the atom and the amount of heat acquired to raise the temperature of a given weight of that element by a certain amount."" (DSB). - ""One of his (Dulong) most important researches was made in collaboration with Alexis Thérese Petit (1791-1820), with whom he announced the law that the product of atomic weight and specific heat is constant (1819). It rendered a distinct service in fixing atomic weights, especially when these were in question, and enabled Berzelius and later Cannizzaro to arrive at correct atomic weights and the correct number of atoms in molecules."" (Leicester & Klickstein, A source Book in Chemistry 1400-1900, p. 273). Magie ""A Source Book in Physics"", p. 178 ff. - Parkinson, Breakthroughs (1819).‎

‎Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Arago, sur l'influence du mouvement terrestre dans quelques phénomènes d'optique.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1818. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 9, Cahier 1. Titlepage to vol. 9. Pp. 5-112 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 57-66. Small stamps on verso of titlepage.‎

‎First printing of Fresnel's importent memoir on the aberration effect from a moving earth.""In the same year in which the memoir on diffraction was submitted, Fresnel published an investigation of the influence of the earth's motion on light (the paper offered).....if we suppose the aether surrounding the earth to be at rest and unaffected by the earth's motion of the telescope, which we may suppose directed to the true place of the star, and the image of the star will therefore be displaced from the central spider-line at the focus by a distance equal to that which the earth describes while the light is travelling through the telescope. This agrees with what is actually observed.""(Whittaker ""A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity"" I, pp. 108-9).‎

‎Mémoire Sur l'Action que les rayons de lumière polarisés exercent les uns sur les autres.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1819. 8vo. No wrappers. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Tome X, 2. Series, Cahier 3. Titlepage to vol. X. Pp. 241-336 (entire issue offered, Cahier 3). Arago and Fresnel's paper: pp. 288-306.‎

‎First appearance of this seminal paper in which Arago and Fresnel described the experiments which demonstrated that light vibrates transversely to its direction of forward movement.""In a further letter to Arago, dated 29 April 1818 Young recurred to the subject of transverse vibrations, comparing light to the undulations of a cord agitated by one of its extremities. This letter was shown by Arago to Fresnel, who at once saw that it presented the true explanation of the non-interference of beams polarised in perpendicular planes, and that the latter effect could even be made the basis of a proof of the correctness of Young's hypothesis" for if the vibration of each beam be supposed resolved into three components, one along the ray and the other two at right angles to it, it is obvious from the Arago-Fresnel experiment that the components in the direction of the ray must vanish" in other words THAT THE VIBRATIONS WHICH CONSTITUTE LIGHT ARE EXECUTED IN THE WAVE-FRONT."" (Edmund Whittaker in ""A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity I"", p. 115). - Parkinson, Breakthroughs 1819 P. - Magie ""A Source Book in Physics, p. 325 ff.‎

‎Explication de la réfraction dans le système des ondes in Annales de chimie et physique, tome 21, pp. 225/240 -- EDITION ORIGINALE‎

‎P., Crochard, 1822, un volume in 8 relié en demi-maroquin vert, dos orné de filets dorés (reliure de l'époque), (légères épidermures sur le premier plat de la couverture), (2), 448pp. 2 planches hors texte ; LE MEMOIRE DE FRESNEL OCCUPE LES PAGES 225 à 240 ET EST ILLUSTRE D'UNE FIGURE DANS LE TEXTE‎

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- FRESNEL apporta la preuve que la théorie ondulatoire peut seule expliquer les phénomènes d'interférences lumineuses ---- "FRESNEL succeeded fully in attaining his explicit goal, the establishment of the wave conception of light. Not long after his death scientific opinion definitely shifted in favor of waves and opened up the pathway leading to the deeper insights of MAXWELL. In troad context FRESNEL's work can be viewed as the first successful assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-century energetics". (DSB V)**6884/o7ar‎

‎Système de chimie traduit de l'anglais sur la cinquième édition (de 1817) par J. Riffault -- "With FRESNEL's and AMPERE's ORIGINAL MEMOIRS ON LIGHT AND ELECTRICITY" -- 5 VOLUMES (COMPLETE SET) -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Méquignon-Marvis, 1818/1822, 5 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en plein veau glacé vert bronze, dos richement ornés de fers dorés, tranches jaspées (reliures de l'époque), (les ff. V-VI et VII de table du tome 3 ont été reliés par erreur à la fin du volume), T.1 : 26pp., 638pp., T.2 : 8pp., 784pp., T.3 : 7pp., 727pp., T.4 : 8pp., 822pp., T. 5 (supplément) : (2), 8pp., 547pp., (1pp.), figures dans le texte‎

‎---- Deuxième édition française "With FRESNEL's and AMPERE's ORIGINAL MEMOIRS ON LIGHT AND ELECTRICITY" ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- "A self-taught chemist, THOMSON first secured his reputation through the publication of the System, which was so popular that it went through six editions during the next eighteen years... As the first systematic treatise of a nonelementary kind to break the French monopoly of such works, THOMSON's System tried patriotically to justice to the contributions made by British chemists to the new chemistry, which had been established in the late eighteenth century...". (DSB XIII p. 372/373) ---- "This is the second french edition translated by Riffault who added an Appendix of new discoveries to vol. IV. The supplement contains material from the sixth english edition as well as ADDED ARTICLES BY A. FRESNEL ON LIGHT (pp. 1/137) and BABINET AND AMPERE ON ELECTRICITY (pp. 163/256". (Cole N° 1283) ---- Partington III pp. 716/722**50120/5012/o3‎