BREWSTER, DAVID.

Additional observations on the optical properties and structure of heated glass and unannealed glas drops. In a Letter addressed to Joseph Banks. Read November 10, 1814.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1813). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1815 - Part I. Pp. 1-8 a. 1 engraved plate.

First appearance of an importent paper in optics in which Brewster describes some of the experiments that lead him, in the next two years, to his discoveries of "Brewster's Law" and to his distinction between Biaxial and Uniaxial crystalline structures.

Order-nr.: 44241