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RefNoPT/8/13/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, diagrams of various light and refraction experiments with glass plates by unknown artist
Date24 November 1813
DescriptionPlate showing four figures that illustrate setups for experiments on light and refraction using glass plates.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the polarisation of light by oblique transmission through all bodies, whether crystallized or uncrystallized. By David Brewster, LL.D. F. R. S. Edin. and F. S. A. Edin. In a letter addressed to Taylor Combe, Esq. Sec. R. S'.

Written by Brewster in Edinburgh. Read 27 January 1814.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk diagrams on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0298
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1814.0013
RelatedRecordPT/8/13
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7450Brewster; Sir; David (1781 - 1868); natural philosopher1781 - 1868
NA3167Combe; Taylor (1774 - 1826)1774 - 1826
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