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Paper, 'On the refraction of plane polarised light at the surface of a uniaxal crystal. II' by RT [Richard Tetley] Glazebrook

Reference number: PP/2/35

Date: 1882

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Glazebrook writes: 'I have just discovered a source of error which had hitherto escaped my notice, and which seriously affects all the results I have arrived at. I have been using a spectrometer made many years since by Grubb, of Dublin, for the late Dr Robinson, of Armagh, and kindly lent to me by Professor Stokes. A chance observation has showed me that the object-glasses of both collimator and telescope in this instrument are strongly doubly refracting.' Glazebrook's earlier work on the refraction of plane polarised light at the surface of a uniaxal crystal can be found in volume 173 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Crystallography

Received 4 December 1882. Read 14 December 1882.

A version of this paper was published in volume 34 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the refraction of plane polarised light at the surface of a uniaxal crystal. II'.

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PP/2/35
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1882
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Paper, 'On the refraction of plane polarised light at the surface of a uniaxal crystal. II' by RT [Richard Tetley] Glazebrook, 1882, PP/2/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_2_35/paper-on-the-refraction-of-plane-polarised-light-at-the-surface-of-a-uniaxal-crystal-ii-by-rt-richard-tetley-glazebrook, accessed on 10 December 2024

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