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Excerpt from Fresnel and His Followers: A Criticism, to Which Are Appended Outlines of Theories of Diffraction and Transversal Vibration
The circumstances under which the following pages are presented to the public are probably familiar to many of my readers. It fell to my lot to denounce a theory not merely all but universally received, but which had been made the subject of the most extravagant eulogy. In conducting such a discussion it was hardly to be expected that I should speak with very profound respect of persons who, while possessing the highest reputation for sagacity and judgment, had been seduced into patronising the most extraordinary errors. It happened however that the tone of animadversion which I felt called upon to assume did not meet with the approbation of the conductor of the periodical which I had made the medium of my communications, who, with a practical respect for authority which is sometimes found to accompany very opposite theoretical views, refused to continue the publication of my papers.
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