Paper, 'On the laws which regulate the absorption of polarised light by doubly refracting crystals' by David Brewster in a letter to the Rt Hon Sir Joseph Banks
Reference number: PT/13/2
Date: 17 October 1818
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Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the laws which regulate the absorption of polarised light by doubly refracting crystals. 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'.
Written by Brewster in Edinburgh. Read 12 November 1818.
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/13/2
- Earliest possible date
- 17 October 1818
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- 25 pages
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- Manuscript
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David Brewster, Paper, 'On the laws which regulate the absorption of polarised light by doubly refracting crystals' by David Brewster in a letter to the Rt Hon Sir Joseph Banks, 17 October 1818, PT/13/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_13_2/paper-on-the-laws-which-regulate-the-absorption-of-polarised-light-by-doubly-refracting-crystals-by-david-brewster-in-a-letter-to-the-rt-hon-sir-joseph-banks, accessed on 15 September 2026
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1819
October 1818 - July 1819 Reference number: PT/13
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