(Marie) A(lfred) Cornu. "The Wave Theory of Light", offprint, Smithsonian report for 1900, pages 93-106. Published in Washington, D.C., at the Government Printing Office. 245x160mm. The text is partially unopened. This is a near-Fine copy. $75 (This report was published a few months earlier in Nature.)
"In 1896, he became president of the French Academy of Sciences. Cornu was the President of the Société Astronomique de France (SAF), the French astronomical society, from 1897-1899. In 1899, at the jubilee commemoration of Sir George Stokes, he was Rede lecturer at Cambridge, his subject being the wave theory of light and its influence on modern physics; and on that occasion the honorary degree of D.Sc. was conferred on him by the university. He died at Romorantin on April 12, 1902. The Cornu spiral, a graphical device for the computation of light intensities in Fresnel's model of near-field diffraction, is named after him. The spiral (or clothoid) is also used in geometric design of roads. The Cornu depolarizeris also named after him."--Wiki
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