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Re: The repeating reflecting circle.
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Jan 19, 10:56 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Jan 19, 10:56 -0500
George Huxtable wrote: > Wollaston was a physicist specialising in optics. I remember the name, > but not the purpose, unfortunately (birefraction?) of the "Wollaston > prism", from my schooldays. As I recall, the Wollaston prism plane-polarized light passing through it. Could be mistaken on this. Fred PS I got dumped from the mailing list for some reason. Just figured this out. Might this also have happened to others?