• DOI:10.1098/rstl.1804.0001
Corpus ID: 110408369

I. The Bakerian Lecture. Experiments and calculations relative to physical optics

@article{YoungITB,
  title={I. The Bakerian Lecture. Experiments and calculations relative to physical optics},
  author={T. Young},
  journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London},
  pages={1 - 16}
}

• T. Young
• Physics
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Experimental demonstration of the general law of the interference of light. In making some experiments on the fringes of colours accompanying shadows, I have found so simple and so demonstrative a proof of the general law of the interference of two portions of light, which I have already endeavoured to establish, that I think it right to lay before the Royal Society, a short statement of the facts which appear to me so decisive.