- Chromatic Phenomena produced by Crystals in Polarized Light
- The Nicol Prism
- Polarizer and Analyzer
- Action of Thick and Thin Plates of Selenite
- Colours dependent on Thickness
- Resolution of Polarized Beam into two others by the Selenite
- One of them more retarded than the other
- Recompounding of the two Systems of Waves by the Analyzer
- Interference thus rendered possible
- Consequent Production of Colours
- Action of Bodies mechanically strained or pressed
- Action of Sonorous Vibrations
- Action of Glass strained or pressed by Heat
- Circular Polarization
- Chromatic Phenomena produced by Quartz
- The Magnetization of Light
- Rings surrounding the Axes of Crystals
- Biaxal and Uniaxal Crystals
- Grasp of the Undulatory Theory
- The Colour and Polarization of Sky-light
- Generation of Artificial Skies.
- Range of Vision not commensurate with Range of Radiation
- The Ultra-violet Rays
- Fluorescence
- The rendering of invisible Rays visible
- Vision not the only Sense appealed to by the Solar and Electric Beam
- Heat of Beam
- Combustion by Total Beam at the Foci of Mirrors and Lenses
- Combustion through Ice-lens
- Ignition of Diamond
- Search for the Rays here effective
- Sir William Herschel's Discovery of dark Solar Rays
- Invisible Rays the Basis of the Visible
- Detachment by a Ray-filter of the Invisible Rays from the Visible
- Combustion at Dark Foci
- Conversion of Heat-rays into Light-rays
- Calorescence
- Part played in Nature by Dark Rays
- Identity of Light and Radiant Heat
- Invisible Images
- Reflection, Refraction, Plane Polarization, Depolarization, Circular Polarization, Double Refraction, and Magnetization of Radiant Heat
- Principles of Spectrum Analysis
- Prismatic Analysis of the Light of Incandescent Vapours
- Discontinuous Spectra
- Spectrum Bands proved by Bunsen and Kirchhoff to be characteristic of the Vapour
- Discovery of Rubidium, Cæsium, and Thallium
- Relation of Emission to Absorption
- The Lines of Fraunhofer
- Their Explanation by Kirchhoff
- Solar Chemistry involved in this Explanation
- Foucault's Experiment
- Principles of Absorption
- Analogy of Sound and Light
- Experimental Demonstration of this Analogy
- Recent Applications of the Spectroscope
- Summary and Conclusion
[On the Spectra of Polarized Light]