Excerpt from The Optical Indicatrix and the Transmission of Light in Crystals It seemed that so simple a set of relations must be capable of translation by the aid of elementary mathematics into mechanical ideas consistent with the new hypotheses. An attempt to effect this took the form given on page 107, but was dis carded as unsatisfactory. I became gradually convinced that all such attempts are premature, and that the adoption of any method of the kind would involve a possible recurrence of the present difficulty for ...
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Excerpt from The Optical Indicatrix and the Transmission of Light in Crystals It seemed that so simple a set of relations must be capable of translation by the aid of elementary mathematics into mechanical ideas consistent with the new hypotheses. An attempt to effect this took the form given on page 107, but was dis carded as unsatisfactory. I became gradually convinced that all such attempts are premature, and that the adoption of any method of the kind would involve a possible recurrence of the present difficulty for it is far from established that the new version, though incomparably more concordant with experimental results than the old, is anything more than a mere mechanical analogy, liable at any moment to be found incomplete, and to be replaced by a version of a totally different character. In fact, recent experiments seem to have established that light-waves and electromagnetic waves only differ in length, yet the latter are deemed inexplicable as mere vibrations of an elastic ether. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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