| RefNo | AP/30/13 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'Experiments on the influence of magnetism on polarized light' by Carlo Matteucci |
| Creator | Matteucci; Carlo (1811-1868); Italian physicist; neurophysiologist |
| Date | 1848 |
| Description | Matteucci communicates some recent experiments on diamagnetism, and particularly on the influence of magnetism on polarised light. He uses an electromagnetic apparatus invented by [Heinrich Daniel] Rumkorf, consisting of a powerful electromagnet, of which the soft iron cylinder is traversed by a hole in the direction of the length of the axis, through which hole the ray of polarised light is made to pass; the voltaic current employed is that of seven pair of Grove’s construction.
Annotations in ink throughout. Marked on front as 'To be printed in the Proceedings'.
Subject: Physics / Magnetism / Optics
Received 3 February 1848. Communicated by Sir John Frederick William Herschel.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Experiments on the influence of magnetism on polarized light'. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0144 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); mathematician and astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |