Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences...

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  • Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1887
By Becquerel, Henri (1852-1908), and others.
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1887. January-June. Good. 26 cm; 1940 pages (Lacks index pages for letter N and following). In half brown morocco over marbled boards. Blindstamp of the Carnegie Institution.

Contains three important papers on light by Becquerel: "Sur les lois de l'absorption de la lumière dans les cristaux, et sure une méthodenouvelle permettant de distinguer dans un cristal ceraines bandes d'absorption appartenant à des corps differents" (pp165-169); "Sur les variations des spectres d'absorption du didyme" (pp. 777-780); and "Sur les variations des spectres d'absorption des composés du didyme" (pp. 1691-1693). These papers are early in Becquerel's career. He studied the absorption of light in crystals, particularly its dependence on the plane of polarization on the incident light and the direction of its propagation through the crystal. DSB 1, p. 588.

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Title

Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences...

Author

Becquerel, Henri (1852-1908), and others.

Condition

Good

Publisher

Gauthier-Villars: Paris

Date

1887

Edition

January-June


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