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CATALOGUE. — NATURE OF LIGHT. 



Vassalli's comparison of solar light with the 

 • light of fire. M. Tur. 1790. VI. 186, 287. 

 Producing the same chemical effects. 



Gehlers physic, worterb. Art. Licht. 

 Wedgwood. Ph. tr. 1792. 270. 



Air not visible made a wire red hot. 



Ph.tr. 1792.81. 



Bennet could discover no momentum in light by a very 

 delicate test. 



Burja on colours. A. Berl. 1792. 23. 

 Franklin on light and heat. Am. tr. IIF. 5. 



The Huygenian theory. 



Bancroft on the philosophy of permanent 

 colours. 8. Lond. 1794. R.S. 



On dying. 



Huttons dissertation on light, heat, and fire. 

 8. Edinb. 

 Ace. Ed.tr. IV. H. 7. 



Calls radiant heat obscure light. 



Tingry on the efi'ect 'of light on oils. Journ. 

 Phys. XLVI.(III.)l6l. 



Dize on the matter of heat and light. Journ. 

 Phys. XLIX. 177. Gilb. IV, 410. 



Brougham on inflection, reflection, and co- 

 lours*. Ph.tr. 1796- 227. 1797. 352. Nich. 

 I. 551. II. 147- See double Refraction. 



Engelon light. A. Berl. 1796. ii. 194. 



Thinks it an element, but not tangible matter. 



Prevost Remarques d'optique. Ph.tr. 1798. 



311. Nich. III. 222. 

 *Prevost on the reflexibility of the rays of 



light. Journ. Phys. XLIX. 273. Gilb. V. 



129, 147. 



In answer to Mr. Brougham's two papers. 



Prevost on the impulse of light, with objec- 

 • tions. Ph.M. 1.421. 



Rumford on the chemical properties attri- 

 buted to light. Ph. tr. 1798. 449- Gilb. II. 

 273. 



Attributes them to an intense heat, excited in a small 

 space, but without any satisfactory evidence. 



On Parr's theory of light and heat. Nrch. II. 



547. 

 Laplace on the attraction of bodies to light. 



Zach. Ephem. IV. 1. 



A star, 250 times as great in diameter as the sun, ought 

 to overcome the velocity of light and draw it back ; such a 

 star would therefore be invisible. 



T. Young on sound and light. Ph. tr. 1800. 



106. Nich. V. 72, 161. 

 Young on the theory of light and colours. 



Ph. tr. 1802. 12. Nich. 8. II. 78. 

 Young on the production of colours. Ph. tr. 



1802. 

 Young on physical optics. Ph. tr. 1804. 1. 

 Herschel on light and heat. Ph. tr. 1800. 



255. 

 Messier on the effect of light on the evapora- 

 tion of mercury. M. Inst. II. 473. Gilb. 



XII. 96. 

 Le Sage on the chemical effects of light, 



Gilb. IL 273. 

 fBrugnatelli on the forms of the matter of 



light. Gilb. IV. 438. 

 Hermst'adt on the colours of natural bodies. 



A. Berl. 1801. 83. Ph. M. XVIII. 201. 

 Ritter on the blackening rays. Gilb. VII. 527. 



Xir. 409. Journ. Phys. LVII. 409- Nich, 



VIII. 214. 

 Ocular music. Montucla and Lalande. III. 



566. 

 Montucla and Lalande. III. 604. 



Lalande concludes with Dalembert " La lumiere se pro- 

 page suivant une ligne droite d'une maniere qui nous esc 

 inconnue." 



Von Charpentier on the evaporation of mer- 

 cury. Gilb. XII. 365. See Heat, Evapo- 

 ration. 



flleron on the nature of light. Ph.M. VUI. 

 161. 



fPownall on light. Ph. M. XII. 42. 

 Makes only one colour. 



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