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Excerpt from A Chapter on Fresnel's Theory of Double Refraction
This Second Edition is an 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. Unexpected hindrances have delayed the pro gress of this work beyond his expectation, and this reprint is therefore issued to satisfy the demand of present students. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
