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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 An earlier draft including unpublished watercolour illustrations is found at PT/8/12.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
Earliest possible date
1813
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Ink on paper
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57 pages
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Manuscript

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David Brewster

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David Brewster, Paper, 'On the affections of light transmitted through crystallised bodies' by David Brewster in a letter to Sir Humphry Davy, 1813, PT/8/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_8_11/paper-on-the-affections-of-light-transmitted-through-crystallised-bodies-by-david-brewster-in-a-letter-to-sir-humphry-davy, accessed on 08 December 2024

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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