Paper, 'On the phenomena of thin plates of solid and fluid substances exposed to polarised light' by Sir David Brewster
Reference number: PT/25/1
Date: 08 April 1841
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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.
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- PT/25/1
- Earliest possible date
- 08 April 1841
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- Ink on paper
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- 27 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Date: 31st December 1841
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1841.0007
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1841
December 1840 - June 1841 Reference number: PT/25
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