Popular lectures and addresses / by William Thomson.
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- Date:
- 1889-
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Popular lectures and addresses / by William Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT. [A Lecture delivered at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, under the auspices of the Franklin Institute, September 29/7*, 1884.] THE subject upon which I am to speak to you this evening is happily for me not new in Philadelphia. The beautiful lectures on light which were given several years ago by President Morton, of the Stevens' Institute, and the succession of lectures on the same subject so admirably illustrated by Professor Tyndall, which many now present have heard, have fully prepared you for anything I can tell you this evening in respect to the wave theory of light. It is indeed my humble part to bring before you only some mathematical and dynamical de- tails of this great theory. I cannot have the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21183399_0318.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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