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I. On the Action of Transparent Bodies upon the differently coloured Rays of Light

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

David Brewster
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From the intimate connexion of the present subject with the improvement of the Achromatic Telescope, it must be admitted to be one of the most important in Optics; while, from the minuteness of the effects which are to be observed and compared, it is unquestionably one of the most difficult. From this cause very little progress has been made in the investigation. The irrationality of the coloured spaces, in prismatic spectra, formed by different substances, has not even been mentioned in any of our elementary treatises on Natural Philosophy, and there are some philosophers who have scrupled to receive it as a truth established in Physics.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , 1818 , pp. 1 - 23
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1818

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page 3 note * The reader is referred to this work, p. 353–401. for farther details illustrative of this subject.

page 8 note * I am indebted for this oil to my friend Dr Gordon. It is a part of that which Mr Brodie used in his interesting experiments on the action of Vegetable Poisons.