Paper, 'On the phenomena of thin plates of solid and fluid substances exposed to polarised light' by Sir David Brewster Subject: Physics Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the phenomena of thin plates of solid and fluid substances exposed to polarized light'. Written by Brewster at St Leonards in St Andrews [Scotland]. Received by the Royal Society on 12 April 1841. Read 6 May 1841. 8 April 1841