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Paper, 'On the action of crystallised bodies on homogeneous light, and on the causes of the deviation from Newton's scale in the tints which many of them develope [sic] on exposure to a polarised ray' by J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel

Reference number: PT/14/6

Date: 1819

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33 manuscript pages and two plates showing polarised rings, tints in crystals, and lenses for viewing crystals.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the action of crystallized bodies on homogeneous light, and on the causes of the deviation from Newton's scale in the tints which many of them develope on exposure to a polarised ray'.

Read 23 December 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.

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PT/14/6
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1819
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Ink on paper
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35 pages
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Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Paper, 'On the action of crystallised bodies on homogeneous light, and on the causes of the deviation from Newton's scale in the tints which many of them develope [sic] on exposure to a polarised ray' by J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel, 1819, PT/14/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_14_6/paper-on-the-action-of-crystallised-bodies-on-homogeneous-light-and-on-the-causes-of-the-deviation-from-newtons-scale-in-the-tints-which-many-of-them-develope-sic-on-exposure-to-a-polarised-ray-by-j-f-w-john-frederick-william-herschel, accessed on 14 January 2025

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