Pesic, Peter (Author)
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 28
Pages: 15-39
Thomas Young's interest in music affected his scientific work throughout his career. His 1800--1803 papers interrelate musical, acoustic, and optical topics to translate the wave theory from sound to light, as does his synoptic Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1807) in justifying his discoveries to a larger audience. Returning to optics in 1817, in the aftermath of the work of Fresnel, Young grounded in musico-acoustical studies his suggestion that light may be a transverse (rather than longitudinal) wave, along with its paradoxical implications for the ether, which he discussed in 1823. Young's decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs also rested on phonology.
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