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Polarisation of Light from the Sky At a meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society on March 3, 1834, the Rev. Temple Chevalier described experiments which he had made on the polarisation of light from the sky. The general results were that light from the clear sky is polarised: that the effect begins to be sensible at points 30 ° distant from the sun, and that the maximum of polarised light proceeds from points at 90 ° distance from the sun; a fact which seems to indicate that the reflection which occasions the polarisation, takes place at the surface of two media as nearly as possible of the same density.
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 133, 337 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133337a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133337a0