Young's Interference experiment

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The discussion centers on locating a scanned copy of Thomas Young's original experiment related to interference, specifically his seminal paper on the topic. A participant expresses difficulty in finding the original document for citation in their project, which involves variations of Young's experiment. Another user provides a direct link to the original paper hosted on the Biodiversity Heritage Library, ensuring accessibility for those interested in historical scientific literature.

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I am not sure if this is the correct place to put this question, as it is rather straight forward. But anyway, does anyone know if/where I could find a scanned (or otherwise copied) copy of Young's original experiment (or his paper(s) on it)?

I am doing a project, that amounts to some variations of the experiment, as such, I would like to be able to site the original as a source, but as of yet, I have been unable to find any copies of it (online and in my library's database).
 
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Dembara said:
I am not sure if this is the correct place to put this question, as it is rather straight forward. But anyway, does anyone know if/where I could find a scanned (or otherwise copied) copy of Young's original experiment (or his paper(s) on it)?

I am doing a project, that amounts to some variations of the experiment, as such, I would like to be able to site the original as a source, but as of yet, I have been unable to find any copies of it (online and in my library's database).
You can find the original here: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63005#page/5/mode/1up
 

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