Paper, 'On the optical and physical properties of tabasheer' by David Brewster in a letter to the Right Hon Sir Joseph Banks
Reference number: PT/13/21
Date: 02 March 1819
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24 manuscript pages include one plate showing a prism of tabasheer.
Subject: Mineralogy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the optical and physical properties of tabasheer. By David Brewster, LL. D. F. R. S. Lond. and Edin. In a letter to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. G. C. B. P. R. S. &c. &c. &c'.
Written by Brewster in Edinburgh. Read 6 May 1819.
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.
- Reference number
- PT/13/21
- Earliest possible date
- 02 March 1819
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 24 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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On the optical and physical properties of tabasheer. By David Brewster, LL. D. F. R. S. Lond. and Edin. In a letter to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. G. C. B. P. R. S. &c External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0112
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1819
October 1818 - July 1819 Reference number: PT/13
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