An elementary treatise on optics / [Henry Coddington].

  • Henry Coddington
Date:
1823
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Credit: An elementary treatise on optics / [Henry Coddington]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Upon the whole, this Work is to be considered as a compilation rather than an original production, and all the merit I can lay claim to is that of having ar- ranged the materials which I found at hand, and endeavoured, with what success I leave it to the reader to judge, to present facts and reasonings in such language as should be at once concise and clear. I have studiously avoided long and diffuse investiga- tions and demonstrations, leaving many things to be supplied which an intelligent reader can readily sup- ply, in order that the several steps of a process might be seen as it were with one glance. For a similar reason I have often omitted to notice parts of Figures which did not seem to me to require being mentioned, as my object was not to give de- tailed descriptions from which Figures might be drawn, but merely to make intelligible those which accom- pany the work. The Notation I have used, is in a great measure adopted from M. Biot, to whom I am indebted for an Appendix on the higher parts of the Science, which I have taken the liberty of translating from the 66 Ad- ditions a l’Optique,” in his Edition of Fischer's Physique Mecanique, p. 396. I have occasionally consulted Harris's Optics; of Smith’s I could make but little use; Hayes’s Fluxions
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