Rayleigh – criticize and resurrect..

Classic and Classical.. Rayleigh..

Criticism and resurrection, Rayleigh style..

I propose to point out what I conceive to be the error which vitiates his reasoning, and afterwards to show that, after all, his theory is substantially correct.

Reference: Note on the explanation of Coronas, as given in Verdet’s Legons d Optique Physique, and other works; London Math. Soc. Proc. 11. pp. 267—269, 1871