Here I share some historical papers/documents/books about polarization optics that are very hard to find and that I consider important or very nice. Soleillet Thesis (1929) [First description of Stokes-Mueller calculus] https://www.mmpolarimetry.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SoleilletThesis.pdf Perrin 1942 (English translation) [First work describing Mueller matrix symmetries] https://www.mmpolarimetry.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/perrin1942.pdf Mueller 1943 (Memorandum on the polarization optics of the photoelastic shutter] [The…