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Project Gutenberg on Nostr: #OTD in 1822. French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy ...

#OTD in 1822.

French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reports a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as it is now known) is stress-induced birefringence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birefringence

#science #physics #optics

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