On the Constant of Magnetic Rotation of Light in Bisulphide of Carbon Received December29, 1884 - Read January 15, 1885.

"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT).

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(London, Harrison and Sons, 1886). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1885, Volume 176 - Part II. - Pp. 343-366, textillustrations. Clean and ine. First printing.In this paper Rayleigh describes that in certain arrangements of 2 Nicol prism when light passing one way it is completely stopped by the second icl, but light passing the other way is completely transmitted. "Rayleigh's grasp of such widely diversed fields as optics and hydrodynamics, acoustics and electromagnetic theory, was phenomenal" and only Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz came near him in this aspect of his genius."(DSB XIII, p.102).

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On the Constant of Magnetic Rotation of Light in Bisulphide of Carbon Received December29, 1884 - Read January 15, 1885.
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"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT).
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