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THIS book contains an exhaustive account of one of the latest devices in physical optics for investigating the refractive power of uniaxial and biaxial crystals. The idea of making use of the principle of total reflection for this purpose is not new. Wollaston, at the beginning of the century, brought forward a method in which the crystal plate under examination was attached to a glass prism; but, owing to the experimental difficulties involved in this process, it met with little practical application. The instrument constructed by Kohlrausch in 1878, in which the crystal plate was immersed in a strongly refractive liquid, was a distinct advance, and has been much used. Within the last ten years, also, Wollaston's apparatus has been considerably improved by Fussner and Liebisch. Both these instruments, however, have still many inconveniences, and it is the claim of the author that the method which he has devised, and which forms the subject of the present work, is free from these.
Das Totalreflectometer und das Refractometer für Chemiker, ihre Verwendung in der Krystalloptik und zur Untersuchung der Lichtbrechung von Flüssigkeiten.
Von Dr. C. Pulfrich, Privatdocenten an der Universität Bonn, und Assistenten des physikalischen Instituts. With 4 Lithographic Plates and 45 Figures in the Text. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1890.)
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P., G. Das Totalreflectometer und das Refractometer für Chemiker, ihre Verwendung in der Krystalloptik und zur Untersuchung der Lichtbrechung von Flüssigkeiten. Nature 44, 538 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044538a0
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