Paper, 'On the effect of polish on the reflexion of light from the surface of Iceland spar' by C Spurge
Reference number: PP/10/33
Date: 1886
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Spurge writes: 'The optical effect of polishing the surface of a transparent body has received the most complete investigation at the hands of [Thomas Johann] Seebeck, and till very recently Seebeck’s were almost the only experiments made on the subject. Seebeck’s method consisted in observing with a Nicol the light of a lamp reflected from the surface of the body.'
Annotations in pencil and ink.
Subject: Optics
Received 18 November 1886. Read 16 December 1886. Revised 3 March 1887. Communicated by Richard Tetley Glazebrook.
A version of this paper was published in volume 42 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the effect of polish on the reflexion of light from the surface of Iceland spar'.
- Reference number
- PP/10/33
- Earliest possible date
- 1886
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 49 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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C Spurge
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C Spurge, Paper, 'On the effect of polish on the reflexion of light from the surface of Iceland spar' by C Spurge, 1886, PP/10/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_10_33/paper-on-the-effect-of-polish-on-the-reflexion-of-light-from-the-surface-of-iceland-spar-by-c-spurge, accessed on 12 November 2024
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IV. On the effect of polish on the reflexion of light from the surface of Iceland spar External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1887
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1886.0114
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Date: 31st December 1887
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1887.0050
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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 42, 1887
1887 Reference number: PP/10
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Richard Tetley Glazebrook
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