Young's interference experiment is any one of a number of optical experiments described or performed at the beginning of the nineteenth century by Thomas Young to demonstrate the wave theory of light.
From a book published in 1807 relating lectures given by Young in 1802 to London's Royal Institution
Title-page of Young's Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1802)
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The French Academy of Sciences is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was
A heroic depiction of the activities of the Academy from 1698
Louis XIV visiting the Royal Academy of Sciences (Sébastien Leclerc I, France, 1671)
Illustration from Acta Eruditorum (1737) where was published Machines et inventions approuvées par l'Academie Royale des Sciences
The Institut de France in Paris where the academy is housed