Drawings, optical effects in crystalline materials under pressure by [David Brewster]
Reference number: PT/73/5/10
Date: 1816
Description
Plate 9, figures 1-14 showing optical effects observed by Brewster in crystalline materials under pressure. The drawings are inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the communication of the structure of doubly refracting crystals to glass, muriate of soda, fluor spar, and other substances, by mechanical compression and dilatation' by David Brewster.
Read to the Royal Society on 29 February 1816.
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- PT/73/5/10
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- 1816
- Physical description
- Ink, ink wash and watercolour on paper
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- 1 page
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- Drawing
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On the communication of the structure of doubly-refracting crystals to glass, muriate of soda, fluor spar, and other substances by mechanical compression and dilatation. 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. P. R. S External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0033
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X. On the communication of the structure of doubly refracting crystals to glass, muriate of soda, fluor spar, and other substances, by mechanical compression and dilatation. 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. P. R. S External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1816
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0011
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 106
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