Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet - Mathematical and physical papers (1880)

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If the ether were at rest, the direction of light would be that of a normal to the surfaces of the waves.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

The equations of Hydrostatics are founded on the principles that the mutual action of two adjacent elements of a fluid is normal to the surface which separates them, and that the pressure is equal in all directions.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

The equations of motion so formed are very complicated, but yet they admit of solution in some instances, especially in the case of small oscillations.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet