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Paper, 'On the effect of temperature upon the refractive index of certain liquids' by W Cassie

Reference number: PP/17/24

Date: 1891

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Cassie writes: 'In my paper “On the Effect of Temperature on the Specific Inductive Capacity of a Dielectric” (‘Phil. Trans.,’ A, 1890), the values obtained for the temperature-variation of specific inductive capacity of four of the liquid dielectrics investigated were compared with the corresponding values of the temperature-variation of refractive index found by Messrs. Dale and Gladstone.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Optics

Received 19 February 1891. Read 12 March 1891. Communicated by Joseph John Thomson.

A version of this paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the effect of temperature upon the refractive index of certain liquids'.

Reference number
PP/17/24
Earliest possible date
1891
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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W Cassie

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W Cassie, Paper, 'On the effect of temperature upon the refractive index of certain liquids' by W Cassie, 1891, PP/17/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_17_24/paper-on-the-effect-of-temperature-upon-the-refractive-index-of-certain-liquids-by-w-cassie, accessed on 14 November 2025

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