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FARADAY'S famous discovery of the rotation of the plane of polarised light by passing the beam through a piece of his heavy glass placed along the lines of force of a magnetic field, was the starting point of the very important department of science now known as electro-optics. From this, as the first observed physical relation between optical and magnetic phenomena, has come the electromagnetic theory of light with all the magnificent researches and discoveries which have marked its experimental verification in recent years. I propose in the present article to give a short account mainly of magneto-optic rotation and the progress which has been made towards its dynamical explanation, followed by a brief discussion of some of the more intimately related phenomena which have been brought to light by recent investigations. It is no part of my plan however to discuss the experimental methods employed in the various researches referred to.
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GRAY, A. Magneto-Optic Rotation. Nature 48, 345–347 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048345a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/048345a0