The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins (1909)
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910, Huggins, Lady, d. 1915 · London, W. Wesley and son · leaf 318
he other parts of thespectrum the lightwas faint. On severalevenings I satisfiedmyself that polarisedlight was present in every part of the comet. I do not think that the proportion of polarised lightexceeded \ of the total light. The polarisation, as exhibited by the partialextinction of one of… … Fig. 38. 294 Scientific Papers because the same proportional diminution in a faint object is more appreciatedby the eye. Still, there was probably a relatively large proportion of polarisedlight in the tail. The reflected solar light would account for a large part of the continuousspectrum. To what…
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