Annotated list of references on Iceland spar and polarized light

96, 395-414. Extract in Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Fr. 32, 112-116, 1851.
Describes the Bravais compensating plate (made <strong>of</strong> quartz).
• Bredig G. and P.S. Fiske (1912) Durch Katalysatoren bewirkte asymmetrische
Synthese. Biochem. Zeitschr. 46, 7-23.
• Bréon R. (1882) Rapport sur une mission en Islande. Arch. Miss. Sci. Litt. 8, 101-
118.
• Brewster D. (1813a) A Treatise on New Philosophical Instruments for Various
Purposes in the Arts and Sciences. Edinburgh and London, 442 p.
• Brewster D. (1813b) On some properties <strong>of</strong> light. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 103,
101-109.
• Brewster D. (1814) Results <strong>of</strong> some recent experiments on the properties
impressed upon light by the action <strong>of</strong> glass raised to different temperatures, and
cooled under different circumstances. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 104, 436-439. More
in 105, 1-8, 1815.
• Brewster D. (1815a) On the laws which regulate the polarisation <strong>of</strong> light by
reflexion from transparent bodies. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 105, 125-159.
• Brewster D. (1815b) On the multiplication <strong>of</strong> images, and the colours which
accompany them in some specimens <strong>of</strong> calcareous spar. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc.
105, 270-292.
• Brewster D. (1815c) On the effects <strong>of</strong> simple pressure in producing that species <strong>of</strong>
crystallization which forms two oppositely polarised images, and exhibits the
complimentary colours by polarised light. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 105, 60-64.
• Brewster D. (1816a) On the communication <strong>of</strong> the structure <strong>of</strong> doubly-refracting
crystals to glass, muriate <strong>of</strong> soda, fluor spar and other substances by mechanical
compression and dilatation. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 106, 157-178.
• Brewster D. (1816b) On the structure <strong>of</strong> the crystalline lens in fishes and
quadrupeds, as ascertained by its action on polarised light. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc.
106, 311-317. More on that subject in 127, 253-258, 1837.
• Brewster D. (1818a) On a new optical and mineralogical property <strong>of</strong> calcareous
spar. Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 8, 165-169. Color phenomena.
• Brewster D. (1818b) On the laws <strong>of</strong> polarisation and double refraction in
regularly crystallized bodies. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 108, 199-273.
• Brewster D. (1819) On the action <strong>of</strong> crystallized surfaces upon light. Phil. Trans.
Royal Soc. 109, 145-160. More on Iceland spar in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 24,
233-246, 1866.
• Brewster D. (1819-20) On the connection between the primitive forms <strong>of</strong> crystals,
and the number <strong>of</strong> their axes <strong>of</strong> double refraction. Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist.
Soc. 3, 50-74 and 337-350, translation in Ann. Phys. 69, 1-29, 1821.
• Brewster D. (1820) On the absorption <strong>of</strong> polarised light in doubly refracting
crystals. Edinb. Philos. J. 2, 341-348. Translation in Ann. Phys.
• Brewster D. (1822-23) Account <strong>of</strong> the experiments <strong>of</strong> Mr. Benjamin Martin.
Edinb. Philos. J. 8, 150-160, 245-257. Reissue <strong>of</strong> pamphlets by B. Martin <strong>of</strong> 1774,
plus preface.
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