Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each. — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity, and to… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether. — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy. — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
