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Goldstein Dennis H.

Polarized Light by Scarabaeidae

by Iulia Millesima

Polarized light, circular light, and scarabs have sometimes been mentioned and debated in Alchemy. Dennis H. Goldstein, an Optics and Photonics researcher, investigated further A. A. Michelson’s observation in 1911 that scarabs could send back annular polarized light from a falling unpolarized beam.

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  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Primitive Music
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

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