Information about Timeline of electromagnetism and classical optics
* 130 - Claudius Ptolemy tabulates angles of refraction for several media, * 1269 - PŽlerin de Maricourt describes magnetic poles and remarks on the nonexistence of isolated magnetic poles, * 1305 - Dietrich von Freiberg uses crystalline spheres and flasks filled with water to study the reflection and refraction in raindrops that leads to primary and secondary rainbows, * 1604 - Johannes Kepler describes how the eye focuses light, * 1604 - Johann Kepler specifies the laws of the rectilinear propagation of the light, * 1611 - Marko Dominis discusses the rainbow in De Radiis Visus et Lucis, * 1611 - Johannes Kepler discovers total internal reflection, a small angle refraction law, and thin lens optics, * 1621 - Willebrord van Roijen Snell states his Snell's law of refraction, * 1630 - Cabaeus found that there are two types of electric charges * 1637 - RenŽ Descartes quantitatively derives the angles at which primary and secondary rainbows are seen with respect to the angle of the Sun's elevation, * 1657 - Pierre de Fermat introduces the principle of least time into optics, * 1665 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi highlights the phenomena of diffraction * 1673 - Ignace Pardies provides a wave explanation for refraction of light * 1675 - Isaac Newton delivers his theory of light * 1676 - Olaus Roemer measures the speed of light by observing Jupiter's moons * 1678 - Christian Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources, * 1704 - Isaac Newton publishes Opticks, a corpuscular theory of light and colour, * 1728 - James Bradley discovers the aberration of starlight and uses it to determine that the speed of light is about 283,000 km/s, * 1746 - Leonhard Euler develops the wave theory of light refraction and dispersion * 1752 - Benjamin Franklin shows that lightning is electricity, * 1767 - Joseph Priestley proposes an electrical inverse-square law, * 1785 - Charles Coulomb introduces the inverse-square law of electrostatics, * 1786 - Luigi Galvani discovers "animal electricity and postulates that animal bodies are storehouses of electricity, * 1800 - William Herschel discovers infrared radiation from the Sun * 1801 - Johann Ritter discovers ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, * 1801 - Thomas Young demonstrates the wave nature of light and the principle of interference, * 1808 - Etienne-Louis Malus discovers polarization by reflection, * 1809 - Etienne-Louis Malus publishes the law of Malus which predicts the light intensity transmitted by two polarizing sheets, * 1811 - Franois Jean Dominique Arago discovers that some quartz crystals will continuously rotate the electric vector of light, * 1816 - David Brewster discovers stress birefringence, * 1818 - Simeon Poisson predicts the Poisson-Arago bright spot at the center of the shadow of a circular opaque obstacle, * 1818 - Franois Jean Dominique Arago verifies the existence of the Poisson-Arago bright spot, * 1820 - Hans Christian ¯rsted notices that a current in a wire can deflect a compass needle, * 1825 - Augustin Fresnel phenomenologically explains optical activity by introducing circular birefringence, * 1826 - Georg Simon Ohm states his Ohm's law of electrical resistance, * 1831 - Michael Faraday states his law of induction, * 1833 - Heinrich Lenz states that an induced current in a closed conducting loop will appear in such a direction that it opposes the change that produced it (Lenz's law), * 1845 - Michael Faraday discovers that light propagation in a material can be influenced by external magnetic fields, * 1849 - Armand Fizeau and Jean-Bernard Foucault measure the speed of light to be about 298,000 km/s, * 1852 - George Gabriel Stokes defines the Stokes parameters of polarization, * 1864 - James Clerk Maxwell publishes his papers on a dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field, * 1871 - Lord Rayleigh discusses the blue sky law and sunsets (Rayleigh scattering), * 1873 - James Clerk Maxwell states that light is an electromagnetic phenomenon, * 1875 - John Kerr discovers the electrically induced birefringence of some liquids, * 1879 - Jo?ef Stefan discovers the Stefan-Boltzmann radiation law of a blackbody and uses it to calculate the first sensible value of the temperature of a Sun's surface to be 5700 K, * 1888 - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz discovers radio waves, * 1895 - Wilhelm Conrad Ršntgen discovers X-rays, * 1896 - Arnold Sommerfeld solves the half-plane diffraction problem, * 1956 - R. Hanbury-Brown and R.Q. Twiss complete the correlation interferometer.
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