1804/12/31 · 287 citations
paper · doi:10.1098/rstl.1804.0001
published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 94, 1-16 (The Royal Society)
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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.