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MS GRAVES - Graves Manuscripts

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	MS GRAVES/11
Title	Fresnel Manuscript
Date	19th century
Description	Manuscript volume, 19th century, containing Augustin Jean Fresnel's 'Memoire sur la Double Refraction', with diagrams.
Extent	1 volume containing 112 leaves
AdminHistory	Born in Broglie, France, 1788; served as an engineer in various departments of France; lost his post temporarily following Napoleon's return from Elba (1814); began research in optics at about that period, studying the aberration of light, creating devices for producing interference fringes and, by applying mathematical analysis, removing several objections to the wave theory of light advanced by Thomas Young; died at Ville-d'Avray, 1827.
CustodialHistory	The manuscript formed part of the library of John Thomas Graves (1806-1870), mathematician and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, whose collection included manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th century, relating mainly to mathematics. Formerly Graves 1225. Other pressmarks: 19.f.18; 149.b.8.
Acquisition	Graves' library was bequeathed to University College London in 1870.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAids	Dorothy K Coveney, 'A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London' (London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
PublnNote	Cf Oeuvres Compltes d'Augustin Fresnel (Henri de Senarmont, mile Verdet and Lonor Fresnel, Paris, 1868), Tome II, pp 479 ff.

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