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Paper, 'Observations on certain cases of elliptic polarization of light by reflexion' by Rev Baden Powell

Reference number: PT/27/5

Date: 1842

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations on certain cases of elliptic polarization of light by reflexion'.

Received by the Royal Society on 10 November 1842. Read 26 January 1843.

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 4, 1843.

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PT/27/5
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1842
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22 pages
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Baden Powell

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Baden Powell, Paper, 'Observations on certain cases of elliptic polarization of light by reflexion' by Rev Baden Powell, 1842, PT/27/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_27_5/paper-observations-on-certain-cases-of-elliptic-polarization-of-light-by-reflexion-by-rev-baden-powell, accessed on 24 January 2026

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