Fresnel, Cauchy and Dispersion
An Error within a Mistake?
An Instance of the Fingerpost
Descartes and the Rainbow
Egyptian Stars under Paris Skies
Huygens and Double Refraction
Why Stokes Never Wrote a Treatise on Optics
The Hertzian Dipole
Kirchhoff and Diffraction
Incommensurability
Politics, Morality, and Misrepresentation in Physical Science