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Image number: RS.8624
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Optical effects in crystalline materials under pressure
Date
1816
Creator
David Brewster (1781 - 1868, British) , Natural philosopher
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 254mm
width (drawing): 203mm
width (drawing): 203mm
Subject
Description
Plate 10 figures 15-28 from the paper "On the communication of the structure of doubly refracting crystals to glass, muriate of soda, fluor spar and other substances, by mechanical compression and dilatation", by David Brewster, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.106 (1816), pp.136-178. The drawings are inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "Ruse & Turners 1813."
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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