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RefNoPT/14/6
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TitlePaper, 'On the action of crystallised bodies on homogeneous light, and on the causes of the deviation from Newton's scale in the tints which many of them develope [sic] on exposure to a polarised ray' by J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel
Date[1819]
Description33 manuscript pages and two plates showing polarised rings, tints in crystals, and lenses for viewing crystals.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the action of crystallized bodies on homogeneous light, and on the causes of the deviation from Newton's scale in the tints which many of them develope on exposure to a polarised ray'.

Read 23 December 1819.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.
Extent35p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
Digital imagesView item on Science in the Making
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0120
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0005
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
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