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Young proposes a dynamical theory of light in crystals,
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110 |
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Researches of Malus on polarization,
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111 |
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Recognition of biaxal crystals,
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113 |
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Fresnel successfully explains diffraction,
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113 |
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His theory of the relatire motion of aether and matter,
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Young suggests the transversality of the vibrations of light,
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Fresnel discusses the dynamics of transverse vibrations
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Fresnel's theory of the propagation of light in crystals,
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Hamilton predicts conical refraction,
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Fresnel's theory of reflexion,
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CHAPTER V.
The Aether as an Elastic Solid.
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Astronomical objection to the elastic-solid theory: Stokes' hypothesis.
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Navier and Cauchy discover the equation of vibration of an elastic solid,
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Poisson distinguishes condensational and distortional waves,
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Cauchy's first and second theories of light in crystals,
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Cauchy's first theory of reflexion,
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His second theory of reflexion,
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The theory of reflexion of MacCullagh and Neumann,
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Green discovers the correct conditions at the boundaries,
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Green's theory of reflexion : objections to it,
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MacCullagh introduces a new type of elastic solid,
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W. Thomson's model of a rotationally-elastic body,
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Cauchy's third theory of reflexion: the contractile aether,
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Later work of W. Thomson and others on the contractile aether,
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Green's first and second theories of light in crystals,
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Influence of Green,
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Researches of Stokes on the relation of the direction of vibration of light to its plane of polarization,
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The hypothesis of aeolotropic inertia,
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Rotation of the plane of polarization of light by active bodies,
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MacCullagh's theory of natural rotatory power,
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MacCullagh's and Cauchy's theory of metallic retlexion,
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Extension of the elastic-solid theory to metals,
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Lord Rayleigh's objection,
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Cauchy's theory of dispersion,
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Boussinesq's elastic-solid theory,
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