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Re: POLARIZATION



Without addressing the issue raised by David, let me quote from the 1812
publication of Bio. This was long before Maxwell. Many teachers today
would consider this to be pure nonsense. But that was the working model
of the great discoverer. I am sharing what I read in the book called
Optical Rotary Power (by T.M. Lowry, 1935, republished in 1964 by Dover).

"Luminous molecules of different kinds, which have passed through the
plate of rock crystal, have, by action of this plate, turned their axes
of polarization into different azimuths. ... The violet molecules turn
faster than the blue, the blue faster than the green, the green faster
than the yellow, and so on to the red molecules which will be the slowest
of all".

The corpuscular (Newtonian) model of light at work. The role of the model
was to promote thinking