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Drawings, optical effects observed during experiments on the heat treatment of glass by [David Brewster]

Reference number: PT/73/5/3

Date: 1815

Description

Plate 2, figures 1-13 showing optical effects observed during Brewster's experiments on the heat treatment of glass. Individual drawings, two coloured, mounted on a backing sheet. 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 new properties of heat, as exhibited in its propagation along plates of glass' by David Brewster.

Read to the Royal Society on 11 January 1816.

Reference number
PT/73/5/3
Earliest possible date
1815
Physical description
Ink, ink wash and watercolour on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Drawing

Creator name

David Brewster

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David Brewster, Drawings, optical effects observed during experiments on the heat treatment of glass by [David Brewster], 1815, PT/73/5/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_5_3/drawings-optical-effects-observed-during-experiments-on-the-heat-treatment-of-glass-by-david-brewster, accessed on 12 October 2024

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