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Paper, 'On the reflexion of polarised light from polished surfaces, transparent and metallic' by Rev Samuel Haughton

Reference number: PT/68/4

Date: 1862

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60 manuscript pages including two figures and one separate plate. The manuscript includes notes sent to the Royal Society by Andrew E Bagot regarding Haughton's paper. These notes were not published as part of the paper.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the reflexion of polarized light from polished surfaces, transparent and metallic'.

Received by the Royal Society on 9 June 1862. Read 19 June 1862.

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 12, 1863.

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PT/68/4
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1862
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Ink on paper
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61 pages
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Manuscript

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Samuel Haughton

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Samuel Haughton, Paper, 'On the reflexion of polarised light from polished surfaces, transparent and metallic' by Rev Samuel Haughton, 1862, PT/68/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_68_4/paper-on-the-reflexion-of-polarised-light-from-polished-surfaces-transparent-and-metallic-by-rev-samuel-haughton, accessed on 12 January 2025

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