The book of philosophical experiments, illustrating the principal facts and curious phenomena of electricity, galvanism, magnetism, optics, chemistry, heat, etc., with introductory observations of each science, and upwards of 300 experiments (1839)
Dalton, J. S. (John S.) · New York : [s.n.] · leaf 35
form upon theirsurface a thin film of water, whose polarizing an-gle is 53° 11; so that if the polarized rays, a cb d, fell upon the plates c d, at an angle of 53°11, the candle from which they proceeded wouldnot be visible, or they would not suffer reflectionfrom the plates c n. At all other… … Philosophical Experiments. 73 reflected from the latter, and none from the for-mer ; that is, the act of breathing upon the glassplates will restore the invisible, and extinguishthe vieable image. This is an experiment ofBrewsters. CHANGES OP THE KALEIDOSCOPE. 259. The following curious calculation…
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