Annotated list of references on Iceland spar and polarized light

• Wendell O.C. (1909) Photometric Observations made with the Fifteen Inch East
Equatorial during the Years 1892 to 1902. Ann. Harvard Coll. Astron. Observ.
69(I), 97 p. Description <strong>of</strong> photometer is on p. 1-5.
• Wernadsky V. (1899) Ueber die Erscheinung der Gleitung in kristallinischen
Substanz. Zeitschr. Kristallogr. 31, 519-522, from a Russian publication.
• Werner A. (1893) Beitrag zur Konstitution anorganischer Verbindungen.
Zeitschr. Anorg. Chemie 3, 267-330. English translation in Kauffman 1968.
• Werner A. (1904) Lehrbuch der Stereochemie. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 474 p.
• Werner A. (1906) Les phénomènes d´isomérie en chimie inorganique. Rev. Gén.
Sci. 17, 538-546.
• Werner A. (1911, 1914) Zur Kenntnis des asymmetrischen Kobaltatoms I. Ber.
Deutsch. Chem. Gesellsch. 44, 1887-1898. XII. Über optische Aktivität bei
kohlenst<strong>of</strong>ffreien Verbindungen. 47, 3087-3094. Extract in C.R. 159, 426-429.
Milestones in his work on metal complexes.
• Wernicke W. (1885) Ueber die Phasenänderungen bei der Reflexion und über die
Schwingungsebene des polarisirten Lichtes. Ann. Phys. 25, 203-232.
• Wertheim G. (1851) Mémoire sur la polarisation chromatique produite par le
verre comprimé. Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Fr. 32, 289-292. Note sur la double
réfraction artificiellement produite dans les cristaux du système régulier. 33, 576-
579. More in 35, 276-278, 1852.
• Wertheim G. (1854) Sur la double réfraction temporairement produite dans les
corps isotropes, et sur la relation entre l’élasticité mécanique et entre l’élasticité
optique. Ann. Chim. 40, 156-221. Photoelasticity, see also Bravais 1855.
• West C.D. (1945) A method <strong>of</strong> growing oriented sections <strong>of</strong> certain optical
crystals. J. Opt. Soc. Am. 35, 26-31. Presumably crystals for Polaroid Corp.´s
Optical Ring Sight.
• West C.D. and R.C. Jones (1951) On the properties <strong>of</strong> polarization elements as
used in optical instruments, I. J. Opt. Soc. Am. 41, 976-982.
• Westfeld C.F. (1767) Mineralogische Abhandlungen, Stück I (referred to e.g. by
Lima-de-Faria 1990). Göttingen.
• Wheatstone C. (1848) On a means <strong>of</strong> determining the apparent solar time by the
diurnal changes <strong>of</strong> the plane <strong>of</strong> polarization at the north pole <strong>of</strong> the sky. British
Assoc. Report 18, pt. ii, 10-12. See also J.B. Soleil in Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci.
Fr. 28, 511-513, 1849.
• Wheatstone C. (1871) Experiments on the successive polarization <strong>of</strong> light, with
the description <strong>of</strong> a new polarizing apparatus. Proc. Royal Soc. 19, 381-389.
• White C.P. (1909) On the occurrence <strong>of</strong> crystals in tumours. J. Pathol. Bacteriol.
13, 3-10.
• Wheeler H.J. and B. Tollens (1889) Über die Xylose oder den Holzzucker, eine
zweite penta-Glykose. Liebig’s Ann. Chemie 254, 304-320. More 320-333, and
by C. Schulze and B.T. in 271, 40-46, 1892.
• White M.C. (1858) Application <strong>of</strong> polarized light to the microscope. Am. J. Sci.
76, 391-392.
• Whittaker E.T. (1951) A History <strong>of</strong> the Theories <strong>of</strong> Aether and Electricity, revised
and enlarged edition, I. Thomas Nelson, London, 434 p.
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