2 papers
physics.hist-ph2022
Traduction commmentée en francais de La Conférence Bakerienne sur la Théorie de la Lumière et des Couleurs de Thomas Young
Olivier Morizot
On November 12, 1802, Thomas Young lays down in front of the Royal Society of London his Theory of Light and Colours. In this text, he defends a vibratory model or light, in which…
physics.hist-ph2022
Traduction commentée en français de la Conférence Bakerienne Sur le Mécanisme de l'Oeil de Thomas Young (1800)
Olivier Morizot
On November 27, 1800, Thomas Young presents for the second time to the Royal Society of London his theory of the musclurity of the crystalline lens, as being the cause of the accom…