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={Thomas Young},
journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London},
pages={1 - 16}
}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.
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