Optical Workshop Principles

Historical Significance: The translation was made from the revised edition of 'Le travail des verres d'optique de precision'published in 1936. Deve is described in the book as honorary director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physics and as a good geomatician and technican. He is credited with devising a coherent theory of optical surfacing and deducing workshop rules from it. He solved a number of problems associated with producing perfect cylindrical lenses. Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (1867 - 1945) (pictured) advised the author of this book and wrote the preface. He was a French physicist who with Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer in 1913. In optics, he discovered an explanation for the phenomenon of interference fringes. Together with his colleague Alfred Perot he invented the Fabry-Perot interferometer In 1904 he was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Marseille, where he spent 26 years. In 1921 Fabry was appointed Professor of General Physics at the Sorbonne and the first director of the new Institute of Optics.