Author: Aldis, W.S.
Title: A Chapter on Fresnel's Theory of Double Refraction
Description: Deighton, Bell, ad Co. 1879 27, . . PB. Title label to front wrapper. Presentation copy form the author to the British astromomer, Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836-1907). From an institutional library with their book-plate inside the front cover.. Second edition - almost verbatim reprint of the first. It was the author's intention to incorporate this chapter in a larger work on the Wave Theory of Light. Very scarce. William Steadman Aldis (1839-1928) was a British mathematician..

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