Annotated list of references on Iceland spar and polarized light

• Maxwell J.C. (1856) On the unequal sensitivity <strong>of</strong> the foramen centrale to light <strong>of</strong>
different colours. British Assoc. Report 26, pt. ii, 12. See Schuster 1890.
• Maxwell J.C. (1862) On physical lines <strong>of</strong> force IV. The theory <strong>of</strong> molecular
vortices applied to the action <strong>of</strong> magnetism on polarized light. Proc. Royal Soc.
13, 531-536.
• Maxwell J.C. (1864) A dynamical theory <strong>of</strong> the electromagnetic field. Proc. Royal
Soc. 13, 531-536 and Phil. Mag. 29, 152-157. His major paper with the same title
appeared in Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 155, 459-512, 1865.
• Maxwell J.C. (1873-74) On double refraction <strong>of</strong> a viscous fluid in motion. Proc.
Royal Soc. 22, 46-47. Translation in Ann. Phys. 151, 151-154.
• Mayer J.T. (1812, 1815) De polaritate luminis. Comm. Soc. Reg. Sci. Gött. 2,
1811-13, extract in Gött. Gelehrte Anz. No. 199, 1812. De apparentiis colorum a
polaritate luminis pendentibus, Comm. Soc. Reg. Sci. Gött. 3, 77-105, 1814-15,
extract in Gött. Gelehrte Anz. No. 170, 1815, 1681-1688.
• McConnel J.C. (1886) An experimental investigation into the form <strong>of</strong> the wave
surface in quartz. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 177, 299-326, abstract in Proc. Royal
Soc. 39, 409-411.
• McConnel J.C. and D.A. Kidd (1888) On the plasticity <strong>of</strong> glacier and other ice,
Proc. Royal Soc. 44, 331-367.
• McDiarmid R.J. (1924) Photometric researches. The eclipsing variables TV
Cassiopeiae, TW Cassiopeiae, TX Cassiopeiae, T Leonis Minoris, SS
Camelopardalis. Contrib. Princeton Univ. Observ. 7, 64 p.
• McElheny V.K. (1998) Insisting on the Impossible. The Life <strong>of</strong> Edwin Land.
Perseus Books, Cambridge, Mass., 510 p.
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia <strong>of</strong> Science and Technology (1992), 7 th ed. Various
articles.
• Mecklenburg W. (1914) Ueber die Messung des Tyndalleffekts in Kolloiden.
Koll. Zeitschr. 14, 172-181.
• Mecklenburg W. (1915) Die Untersuchung von trüben Lösungen.
Naturwissensch. 3, 317-323. Describes a “Tyndallmeter” incorporating three
Nicol prisms.
• Mees C.E.K. and S.E. Sheppard (1904) Über Apparate zu sensitometrischen
Untersuchungen, mit einer geschichtlichen Zusammenfassung. Zeitschr.
Wissensch. Photogr. 2, 303-336. See also their paper on Theory <strong>of</strong> photographic
processes. Proc. R.S. 74, 447-473. Mees was Kodak’s director <strong>of</strong> reseach in 1914-
49.
• Meisling A.A. (1904) Ein Polarisationskolorimeter. Zeitschr. Analytische Chemie
43, 137-146, followed by H.P.T. Oerum’s paper on hemoglobin measurements.
• Melander G. (1897) Sur un spectro-photomètre construit pour distinguer
directement les raies telluriques dans le spectre solaire. Öfvers. Finska
Vetenskaps-Societetens Förhandl. 39, 247-255.
• Melloni M. (1836-37) Mémoire sur la polarisation de la chaleur. Ann. Chim. 61,
375-410 and 65, 1-68. Some <strong>of</strong> his papers are translated in Ann. Phys. 35, 1835
and 37, 1836.
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