Treatise on Practical Light

xv, 519 pp. CONTENTS: Pin Experiments; Mirrors and Lenses; Focal Length of Mirrors and Lenses--Optical Bench; Optical Instruments; Deviation and Dispersion of Light; Illustrations of Methods of Determining the Velocity of Light; Further Experiments with the Optical Bench; Compound Lens; Aberrations of Lenses and Mirrors; The Diffraction Grating; Interference and Diffraction; Further Experiments on Interference; Colours of Thin and Thick Plates; Interferometers; Further Experiments on Diffraction; Resolving Power of Optical Instruments; The Compound Microscope; Photometry; Colour Measurement; The Eye and Vision; Polarised Light; Simple Saccharimeters; Further Experiments on Polarised Light; Appendix I.: The Rainbow; Appendix II.: Practical Hints; Appendix III.: Practical Notes on Working Mica and Selenite; Appendix IV.: Light Sources; Tables: Reciprocals, Sines, Tangents; Index.