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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the oblique refraction of Iceland crystal'

Read 24 June 1802

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L&P/12/31
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1802
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14 pages
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Manuscript

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William Hyde Wollaston

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William Hyde Wollaston, Paper, 'On the oblique refraction of Iceland crystals' by William Hyde Wollaston, 1802, L&P/12/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_31/paper-on-the-oblique-refraction-of-iceland-crystals-by-william-hyde-wollaston, accessed on 17 August 2026

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