Polarized Light: Selected Reprints

Contents: 1) Polarized Light Enters the World of Everday Life (M. Grabau). 2) Sky Compass (Anonymous). 3) Polarized Light and Animal Navigation (T. H. Waterman). 4) Polarization Patterns in Submarine Illumination (T. H. Waterman). 5) Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics (H. von Helmholtz). 6) Haidinger's Brushes and Circularly Polarized Light (W. A. Shurcliff). 7) The Polarizing Microscope in Organic Chemistry and Biology (A. E. J. Vickers). 8) Effect of Polarized Light on Polarity of Fucus (L. Jaffe). 9) A Kerr-Cell Camera with Synchronized Light Source for Millimicrosecond Reflected Light Photography (G. A. Theophanis). 10) Some Aspects of the Development of Sheet Polarizers (E. H. Land). 11) On the Properties of Polarizing Elements as Used in Optical Instruments. I. Fundamental Considerations (C. D. West, R. C. Jones). 12) Pile-of-Plates Polarizers for the Infrared: Improvement in Analysis and Design (G. R. Bird, W. A. Shurcliff). 13) The Wire Grid as a Near-Infrared Polarizer (G. R. Bird, M. Parrish, Jr.). 14) Magneto-Optic Rotation in Birefringent Media: Application of the Poincaré Sphere (G. N. Ramachandran, S. Ramaseshan). 15) Transmission of Light through Birefringent and Optically Active Media: The Poincaré Sphere (H. G. Jerrard). 16) Matrix Calculus and the Stokes Parameters of Polarized Radiation (M. J. Walker). 17) Visible Light from Localized Surface Charges Moving across a Grating (S. J. Smith, E. M. Purcell). 18) Elliptic Polarimeter for the Student Laboratory (T. H. Brown).