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Tag Archives: polarizers
Quinine, dog pee, and… optics? (1852)
Every once in a while I come across an off-hand comment that immediately makes me need to know more. Recently, I’ve been researching the history of light polarizers, and turned to a paper1 by Edwin Land, the scientist who developed … Continue reading
