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Six lectures on light : delivered in America in 1872-1878 (1886)

Tyndall, John, 1820-1893 · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 153

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that if they be suitably received upon a plate of glassat the polarizing angle, one of them will l)e reflected,the other not. This is a simple inference from our pre-vious knowledge ; but you observe that the inference iajustified by experiment. (Figs. 34 and 35.) 122 ON LIGHT. LKCT. I have said… … transmitted beam contains a quantity of polarizedlight equal to the reflected beam: but this is onlya fraction of the whole transmitted light. By tak-ing two plates of glass instead of one, we augment 4the quantity of the transmitted polarized light; and bytaking a bundle of plates, we so increase…

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