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RefNoAP/60/10
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'Double refraction and dispersion in Iceland spar [optical calcite]' by Richard Tetley Glazebrook
Date1879
DescriptionSection five of Glazebrook's paper on double refraction and dispersion in Iceland spar, which deals with dispersion effects. This section of the paper was left unpublished.

Subject: Optics

Received 12 June 1879. Read 19 June 1879.

Other parts of Glazebrook's paper were published in volume 171 of Philosophical Transactions as 'Double refraction and dispersion in Iceland Spar: an experimental investigation, with a comparison with Huyghen’s construction for the extraordinary wave'.
Extent17p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1879.0036
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1880.0011
RelatedRecordRR/8/98
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8225Glazebrook; Sir; Richard Tetley (1854 - 1935)1854 - 1935
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