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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

Reference number: PT/8/12

Date: 10 September 1813

Description

36 manuscript pages and five plates of unpublished watercolour illustrations of light passing through crystals. This is a draft version of the paper and illustrations located at PT/8/11. A note at the top of this paper indicates that Brewster was advised to submit the paper without coloured illustrations, and all illustrations are marked 'Withdrawn'.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions 'On the affections of light transmitted through crystallized bodies'.

Read 9 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/8/12
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10 September 1813
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Ink on paper
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41 pages
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Manuscript

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David Brewster

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David Brewster, Paper, draft of 'On the affections of light transmitted thro' various crystallised bodies' in a letter from David Brewster to Sir H [Humphry] Davy, 10 September 1813, PT/8/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_8_12/paper-draft-of-on-the-affections-of-light-transmitted-thro-various-crystallised-bodies-in-a-letter-from-david-brewster-to-sir-h-humphry-davy, accessed on 14 December 2024

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