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Paper, 'On the polarisation of light by oblique transmission through all bodies whether crystallised or uncrystallised' by David Brewster in a letter to Taylor Combe

Reference number: PT/8/13

Date: 24 November 1813

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13 manuscript pages and one plate showing several ways to set up glass plates to conduct experiments on light and refraction.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the polarisation of light by oblique transmission through all bodies, whether crystallized or uncrystallized. By David Brewster, LL.D. F. R. S. Edin. and F. S. A. Edin. In a letter addressed to Taylor Combe, Esq. Sec. R. S'.

Written by Brewster in Edinburgh. Read 27 January 1814.

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/8/13
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24 November 1813
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14 pages
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Manuscript

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David Brewster

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David Brewster, Paper, 'On the polarisation of light by oblique transmission through all bodies whether crystallised or uncrystallised' by David Brewster in a letter to Taylor Combe, 24 November 1813, PT/8/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_8_13/paper-on-the-polarisation-of-light-by-oblique-transmission-through-all-bodies-whether-crystallised-or-uncrystallised-by-david-brewster-in-a-letter-to-taylor-combe, accessed on 09 December 2024

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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