Author: Brewster, David.
Title: ON CIRCULAR POLARISATION, as exhibited in the Optical Structure of the Amethyst, with Remarks on the Distribution of the Colouring Matter in that Mineral. (Read November 15. 1819).
Description: ..., 1819. Slim 4to. ([139]-152)pp. Hand-coloured copper engraving (plate no. 10). Unopened in parts, disbound, loosely inserted in modern paper wrapps. with paper title label and booksellers ink stamp to upper wrapp. ¶ From the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume IX. Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor (of the Kaleidoscope), and writer.

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