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Paper, 'On the communication of the structure of doubly refracting crystals to glass, muriate of soda, fluor spar and other substances by mechanical compression and dilatation' by David Brewster in a letter to the Rt Hon Sir Joseph Banks

Reference number: PT/10/10

Date: 1816

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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/5/10-11.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the communication of the structure of doubly refracting crystals to glass, muriate of soda, fluor spar, and other substances, by mechanical compression and dilatation. By David Brewster, LL. D. F. R. S. Lond. and Edin. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. G. C. B. P. R. S'.

Read 29 February 1816.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/10/10
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1816
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30 pages
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David Brewster, Paper, 'On the communication of the structure of doubly refracting crystals to glass, muriate of soda, fluor spar and other substances by mechanical compression and dilatation' by David Brewster in a letter to the Rt Hon Sir Joseph Banks, 1816, PT/10/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_10_10/paper-on-the-communication-of-the-structure-of-doubly-refracting-crystals-to-glass-muriate-of-soda-fluor-spar-and-other-substances-by-mechanical-compression-and-dilatation-by-david-brewster-in-a-letter-to-the-rt-hon-sir-joseph-banks, accessed on 15 November 2025

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