Paper, 'On the affections of light transmitted through crystallised bodies' by David Brewster in a letter to Sir Humphry Davy
Reference number: PT/8/11
Date: 1813
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52 manuscript pages and five plates showing the structure of various crystals and the way light passes through them. An earlier draft including unpublished watercolour illustrations is found at PT/8/12.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the affections of light transmitted through crystallized bodies'.
Read 23 December 1813.
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 1, 1832.
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- PT/8/11
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- 1813
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 57 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, draft of 'On the affections of light transmitted thro' various crystallised bodies' in a letter from David Brewster to Sir H [Humphry] Davy
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1814
January 1813 - August 1814 Reference number: PT/8
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