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WE have here a popular and interesting account of many of the facts relating to the nature and properties of light. The subject is treated in a way that will induce many readers to glance through its pages, even if they do not more carefully peruse it; while many a more advanced student will read the chapters on double refraction and polarization, lenses, and interference and refraction. Of other points touched on, we may mention spectrum analysis, optical instruments, chemical effects of light, fluorescence and phosphorescence—all of which are delightfully treated by the author.
Light.
By Sir H. Trueman Wood. “Whittaker's Library of Popular Science.” (London: Whittaker and Co., 1891.)
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Light . Nature 45, 269 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045269b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/045269b0