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XVIII. On the Laws which regulate the Distribution of the Polarising Force in Plates, Tubes, and Cylinders of Glass, that have received the Polarising Structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Extract

In the Philosophical Transactions for 1816, I have described at great length the various phenomena which are exhibited by glass and other substances to which the property of double refraction has been communicated by heat, by rapid cooling, by evaporation, or by mechanical compression and dilatation. In pursuing the same subject, I have observed many singular facts respecting the developement of new axes, by a change in the form and condition of the plates; and by submitting the phenomena to accurate measurement, I have succeeded in determining the laws which regulate the distribution of the polarising force. A brief account of these results will form the subject of the following paper.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1818

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References

page 356 note * See Phil. Trans. 1816, Plate IV. fig. 29.

page 356 note † Id. Plate II. fig. 3, 4.

page 356 note ‡ Id. Plate II. fig. 8.

page 356 note ║ Id. Plate IX. fig. 9.

page 356 note § Id. Plate IX. fig. 10.

page 357 note * Phil. Trans. 1816, vol. II. fig. 8.

page 361 note * See Phil. Trans. 1816, Plate IX. fig. 9.

page 356 note † Id. Plate IX. Fig. 10.

page 368 note * See Phil. Trans. 1816, p. 82.