On the Theory of Optical Images, with Special Reference to the Microscope. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Series 5, Volume 42, Issue 255, August 1896, pp. 167-195 [EXTRACT]
1896. 1st Edition. John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919), was an English theoretical and experimental physicist who “made seminal contributions to theoretically defining the resolving power of gratings, prisms, telescopes and microscopes” (Lord Rayleigh: A Scientific Life, The Optical Society, June 2009). He was also head of the Royal..... More