BREWSTER, DAVID. - ON DOUBLE REFRACTION.

On the multiplication of images, and the colours which accompany them in some specimens of calcareus spar. Read June 8, 1815.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1815). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1815 - Part II. Pp. 270-292 and 1 engraved plate.

First printing on an importent investigation of the double refraction phenomena in some crystals e.g. Icelandic spar, and describing an antichromatic instrument.
Stitched together with this paper is a paper by Everard Home: "On the mode of generation of the lamprey and myxine." Pp. 265-269 a. 1 engraved plate.

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