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Unpublished paper, 'Double refraction and dispersion in Iceland spar [optical calcite]' by Richard Tetley Glazebrook

Reference number: AP/60/10

Date: 1879

Description

Section five of Glazebrook's paper on double refraction and dispersion in Iceland spar, which deals with dispersion effects. This section of the paper was left unpublished.

Subject: Optics

Received 12 June 1879. Read 19 June 1879.

Other parts of Glazebrook's paper were published in volume 171 of Philosophical Transactions as 'Double refraction and dispersion in Iceland Spar: an experimental investigation, with a comparison with Huyghen’s construction for the extraordinary wave'.

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AP/60/10
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1879
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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17 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Tetley Glazebrook

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Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Unpublished paper, 'Double refraction and dispersion in Iceland spar [optical calcite]' by Richard Tetley Glazebrook, 1879, AP/60/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_60_10/unpublished-paper-double-refraction-and-dispersion-in-iceland-spar-optical-calcite-by-richard-tetley-glazebrook, accessed on 10 December 2024

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