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Six Lectures on Light

by John Tyndall

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Lecture III Relation of Theories to Experience

ORIGIN OF THE NOTION OF THE ATTRACTION OF GRAVITATION

NOTION OF POLARITY, HOW GENERATED

ATOMIC POLARITY

STRUCTURAL ARRANGEMENTS DUE TO POLARITY

ARCHITECTURE OF CRYSTALS CONSIDERED AS AN INTRODUCTION

TO THEIR ACTION UPON LIGHT

NOTION OF ATOMIC POLARITY APPLIED TO CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE

EXPERIMENTAL ILLUSTRATIONS

CRYSTALLIZATION OF WATER

EXPANSION BY HEAT AND BY COLD

DEPORTMENT OF WATER CONSIDERED AND EXPLAINED

BEARINGS OF CRYSTALLIZATION ON OPTICAL PHENOMENA

REFRACTION

DOUBLE REFRACTION

POLARIZATION

ACTION OF TOURMALINE

CHARACTER OF THE BEAMS EMERGENT FROM ICELAND SPAR

POLARIZATION BY ORDINARY REFRACTION AND REFLECTION

DEPOLARIZATION

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