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A Chapter on Fresnel's Theory of Double Refraction

by Aldis, W.S.

$A Chapter on Fresnel's Theory of Double Refraction$

Publisher : Deighton, Bell, ad Co.
Published In : Cambridge

Description:

Second edition - almost verbatim reprint of the first. It was the author's intention to incorporate this chapter in a larger work on the Wave Theory of Light. Very scarce. William Steadman Aldis (1839-1928) was a British mathematician.

Condition

Title label to front wrapper. Presentation copy form the author to the British astromomer, Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836-1907). From an institutional library with their book-plate inside the front cover.