| RefNo | PT/14/6/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Plate, polarised light rings and tints of crystals by [John Frederick William Herschel] |
| Date | [1819] |
| Description | Plate V containing figures 1-5 which show diagrams of polarised light rings and tints of crystals. Likely drawn by Herschel.
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. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink diagrams on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0120 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0005 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/14/6 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |