Thomas Young contributed to philology and to the problems of vision, as well as to the understanding of wave motion and interference for which he is principally known. The steps by which he achieved understanding of the phenomena of interference, from his first work in 1801, through the publication of Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, and up to his development of the theory of the interferometer in 1817, are outlined.
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