Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8619
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Optical effects during the heat treatment of glass
Date
1815
Creator
David Brewster (1781 - 1868, British) , Natural philosopher
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 263mm
width (drawing): 209mm
width (drawing): 209mm
Subject
Description
Plate 5 from the paper "On new properties of heat, as exhibited in its propagation along plates of glass", by David Brewster, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.106 (1816), pp.46-114. Figures 45-55, individual drawings, one coloured, mounted on a backing sheet. The drawings are inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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