List of English translations of works by Augustin Fresnel
Creators: name: Putland, Gavin Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Optics, Physical optics, History of optics

description: The following list is in chronological order of original composition. Titles of translations are as assigned by the translators/editors and may involve some editorial discretion. <strong>Abbreviations</strong>: <em>ACP</em> = Annales de Chimie et de Physique (Ser. 2, unless otherwise noted); <em>BSP</em> = Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris / Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomatique de Paris; <em>MAS</em> = Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France; <em>OC</em> = Oeuvres Complètes d'Augustin Fresnel (3 vols.; 1866, 1868, 1870). ― A. Fresnel (10 Feb. 1815), Letter to Jean François "Léonor" Mérimée (Smithsonian Dibner Library, MSS 546A), in G. Magalhães, "Remarks on a new autograph letter from Augustin Fresnel: Light aberration and wave theory", <em>Science in Context</em>, <strong>19</strong> (2): 295–307 (June 2006), doi.org/10.1017/S0269889706000895, at p. 306 (original French) and p. 307 (English translation). A. Fresnel (read 30 Mar. 1818), tr. E. Ronalds &amp; H. Lloyd, "Memoir upon the colours produced in homogeneous fluids by polarized light", Taylor's <em>Scientific Memoirs</em> <strong>5</strong>: 44–65 (1852). Original: "Mémoire sur les couleurs développées dans les fluides homogènes par la lumière polarisée", <em>ACP</em> (Ser. 3) <strong>17</strong>: 172–99 (1846) / <em>OC</em> <strong>1</strong>: 655–83. A. Fresnel (29 July 1818), tr. as "Fresnel's prize memoir on the diffraction of light" (abridged), in H. Crew (ed.), <em>The Wave Theory of Light: Memoirs by Huygens, Young and Fresnel</em>, American Book Co., 1900, pp. 81–144. Original: "Mémoire sur la diffraction de la lumière", crowned 15 Mar. 1819, <em>MAS</em> <strong>5</strong>: 339–475 (for 1821–22, printed 1826) / <em>OC</em> <strong>1</strong>: 247–382f. A. Fresnel (Sep.– Nov. 1818), tr. as "Letter from Augustin Fresnel to François Arago, on the influence of the movement of the earth on some phenomena of optics" in K.F. Schaffner, <em>Nineteenth-Century Aether Theories</em>, Pergamon, 1972, pp. 125–35. Original: "Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Arago sur l'influence du mouvement terrestre dans quelques phénomènes d'optique", <em>ACP</em>, vol. <strong>9</strong>, pp. 57–66 &amp; plate after p. 111 (Sep. 1818), &amp; pp. 286–7 (Nov. 1818) / <em>OC</em> <strong>2</strong>: 627–36. (Also tr. R.R. Traill, "Letter from Augustin Fresnel to François Arago concerning the influence of terrestrial movement on several optical phenomena", <em>General Science Journal</em>, 23 Jan. 2006, 8 pp.) D.F.J. Arago and A. Fresnel (Mar. 1819), tr. as "On the action of rays of polarized light upon each other" in H. Crew (ed.), <em>The Wave Theory of Light: Memoirs by Huygens, Young and Fresnel</em>, American Book Co., 1900, pp. 145–55. Original: "Mémoire sur l'action que les rayons de lumière polarisés exercent les uns sur les autres", <em>ACP</em> <strong>10</strong>: 288–305 (Mar. 1819) / <em>OC</em> <strong>1</strong>: 509–22. (<em>OC</em> changes <em>polarisés</em> to <em>polarisée</em> in title; Crew follows <em>OC</em>.) A. Fresnel (May–July 1821), tr./ed. G.R. Putland, "On the calculation of the tints that polarization develops in crystalline plates, &amp; postscript", doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4058004, 2021. Original: "Note sur le calcul des teintes que la polarisation développe dans les lames cristallisées" et seq., <em>ACP</em> <strong>17</strong>: 102–11 (May 1821), 167–96 (June 1821), 312–15 ("Postscript", July 1821) / <em>OC</em> <strong>1</strong>: 609–48. A. Fresnel (finished June 1821), tr. T. Young, "Elementary view of the undulatory theory of light", <em>Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and Art</em>, vol. 21 (Jan.– June 1827), pp. 127–41, 441–54; vol. 22 (July–Dec. 1827), pp. 113–35, 431–48; vol. 23 (Jan.– June 1828), pp. 198–215; vol. 24 (July–Dec. 1828), pp. 168–91, 389–407; vol. 25 (Jan.– June 1829), pp. 159–65 (where vol. numbers assume that vol. 20 is the only one for 1826). Original: <em>De la Lumière</em>, in J. Riffault (ed.), <em>Supplément à la traduction française de la cinquième édition du "Système de Chimie" par Th. Thomson</em>, Paris: Méquignon-Marvis, 1822, pp. 1–137, 535–9 / <em>OC</em> <strong>2</strong>: 3–146. (Young's translation is somewhat licentious, e.g. inlining and abbreviating footnotes.) A. Fresnel (Aug. 1821), tr./ed. G.R. Putland, "Note on the remarks of Mr. Biot relating to colors of thin plates", doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4541332, 2021. Original: "Note sur les remarques de M. Biot, publiées dans le cahier précédent", <em>ACP</em> <strong>17</strong>: 393–403 (Aug. 1821) / <em>OC</em> <strong>1</strong>: 601–8. A. Fresnel (21 Sep. 1821), tr./ed. G.R. Putland, "Letter to Arago on biaxial birefringence", <em>Wikisource</em>, 2021. Original: <em>OC</em> <strong>2</strong>: 257–9. A. Fresnel (Nov. 1821), tr. anon., "On the ascent of clouds in the atmosphere", <em>Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts</em>, <strong>15</strong>: 165–6 (1823). Original: "Sur l'ascension des nuages dans l'atmosphère", <em>ACP</em> <strong>21</strong>: 260–63 (Nov. 1821) / <em>BSP</em> for Oct. 1822, pp. 159–60 / <em>Bibliothèque Universelle</em> (Sciences et Arts) <strong>21</strong> (4): 255–8 (Dec. 1822) / <em>OC</em> <strong>2</strong>: 663–6. (See also the note of Dec. 1822, below.) A. Fresnel (read 13 Jan. 1822 ?), tr./ed. G.R. Putland, "<em>Extrait</em> of the Supplement to the Memoir on double refraction", doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5886692, 2022. Original: "Extrait du Supplément au Mémoire sur la double réfraction", <em>OC</em> <strong>2</strong>: 335–42. A. Fresnel (read 29 July 1822), tr. T. Tag, "Memoir upon a new system of lighthouse illumination", U.S. Lighthouse Soc., undated (archived 19 Aug. 2016). Original: "Mémoire sur un nouveau système d'éclairage des phares", Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1822 / <em>OC</em> <strong>3</strong>: 97–126. A. Fresnel (signed 8 Sep. 1822), tr./ed. G.R. Putland, "Note on the double refraction of compressed glass", doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4706834, 2021. Original: "Note sur la double réfraction du verre comprimé", read 16 Sep. 1822, <em>ACP</em> <strong>20</strong>: 376–83 (nominally for Aug. 1822, printed Oct.) / <em>OC</em> <strong>1</strong>: 713–18. A. Fresnel (read 9 Dec. 1822), tr./ed. G.R. Putland, "Memoir on the double refraction that light rays undergo in traversing the needles of quartz in the directions parallel to the axis", doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4745976, 2021. Original: "Mémoire sur la double réfraction que les rayons lumineux éprouvent en traversant les aiguilles de cristal de roche suivant les directions parallèles à l'axe", <em>OC</em> <strong>1</strong>: 731–51. A. Fresnel (Dec. 1822), tr./ed. G.R. Putland, "Note on the article on the ascent of clouds", <em>Wikisource</em>, 2023. Original: "Note relative à l'article sur l'ascension des nuages, inséré dans la Livraison d'octobre", <em>BSP</em> for Dec. 1822, p. 198 / <em>OC</em> <strong>2</strong>: 665<em>n</em>. A. Fresnel (May 1822 – Mar. 1825), tr./ed. G.R. Putland, "<em>Extrait</em> of a [second] memoir on double refraction", doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5442206, 2022. Original: "Extrait d'un Mémoire sur la double réfraction", <em>ACP</em> <strong>28</strong>: 263–79 (Mar. 1825) / <em>OC</em> <strong>2</strong>: 465–78. A. Fresnel (read 13 June 1825), tr. anon., "On the repulsion exerted by heated bodies at sensible distances", <em>Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts</em>, <strong>20</strong>: 164–7 (1826). Original: "Note sur la répulsion que des corps échauffés exercent les uns sur les autres à des distances sensibles" et seq., <em>ACP</em> <strong>29</strong>: 57–62, 107–8 (May 1825) / <em>OC</em> <strong>2</strong>: 667–72. A. Fresnel (finished 1826?), tr. A.W. Hobson, "Memoir on double refraction", Taylor's <em>Scientific Memoirs</em> <strong>5</strong>: 238–333 (1852). Original: "Mémoire sur la double réfraction", <em>MAS</em> <strong>7</strong>: 45–176 (nominally for 1824, printed 1827), reprinted with corrections as "Second mémoire..." in <em>OC</em> <strong>2</strong>: 479–596. (For notable errata in the 1827 printing, and consequently in the translation, see <em>OC</em> <strong>2</strong>: 596<em>n</em>.) ― Last modified 30 September 2023. <strong>No supporting files needed; metadata only.</strong>