BREWSTER, DAVID - FOUNDING OPTICAL MINERALOGY.

On some Properties of Light. Read January 28, 1813.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1813). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1813 - Part I. Pp. 101-109

First printing of Brewsters first paper in the Transactions in which he gives a preliminary result of his testing of the transmission of light through around 200 transparent substances. In a paper issued the next year (1814) he called the different phenomena that he observed here, Biaxal and Uniaxal.

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