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.
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- PT/73/5/3
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- 1815
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- Ink, ink wash and watercolour on paper
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- 1 page
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- Drawing
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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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Related Publications
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On new properties of heat, as exhibited in its propagation along plates of glass. By David Brewster, LL. D. F. R. S. Lond. and Edinb. 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.1815.0027
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IV. On new properties of beat, as exhibited in its propagation along plates of glass. 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.1816.0005
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Paper, 'On the properties of heat as exhibited in its propogation along plates of glass' by David Brewster in a letter to the Rt Hon Sir Joseph Banks
Creator: David Brewster Reference number: PT/10/4
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
1807-1833 Reference number: PT/73 -
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 106
1815-1816 Reference number: PT/73/5
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David Brewster
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