BIB_ID
80443
Accession number
MA 8763
Creator
Airy, George Biddell, 1801-1892.
Display Date
1857 August 15.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20 x 12.5 cm
Notes
Addressed from "Royal Observatory Greenwich/ London S.E."
Provenance
From the collection of William Angus Knight.
Summary
Thanking him for a copy of his Cyclopaedia of Physical Sciences, and criticizing at length those portions of it that deal with "the Undulatory Theory of Light, as connected with the phenomena of Polarization"; suggesting papers Nichol could read for further information on the subject; characterizing the treatment of it in the Cyclopedia as "of the Brewster school".
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