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Augustin-Jean Fresnel

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Ce n'est point l'observation mais la théorie qui m'a conduit ? ce résultat que l'expérience a ensuite confirmé.
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It's not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.
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explaining how he was led to discover the law characterizing interference fringes, in ?uvres compl?tes d'Augustin Fresnel. Imprimerie impériale. 1866. p. 61. 

 
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