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Quotation from Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens
“For though I have not been able till now to find its cause, I do not for that reason wish to desist from describing it, in order to give opportunity to others to investigate it.”
Treatise on Light, Chapter V, trans. Silvanus P. Thompson (1912)
Huygens introduces the behaviour of light passing through two Iceland crystals, later explained as polarization.
Citation: "For though I have not been able till now to find its cause, I do not for that reason wish to desist from describing it, in order to give opportunity to others to investigate it." — Christiaan Huygens, Treatise on Light, Chapter V, trans. Silvanus P. Thompson (1912). (id huygens-treatise-on-light-q7)
Portrait: Christiaan-huygens4, Bernard Vaillant, Public domain.
