Optical effects in crystalline materials under pressure Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Stirling Moss with Harry Schell

Stirling Moss with Harry Schell and Mike Hawthorn

View of the entrance to the tunnel whilst under construction

Design of a sundial at St Olave

12th October 1952

Optical effects in crystalline materials under pressure Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Stirling Moss with Harry SchellPlate 9 figures 1 14 from the paper 'On the communication of the structure of doubly refracting crystals to glass, muriate of soda, fluor spar and other substances, by mechanical compression and dilatation', by David Brewster, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 136 178. The drawings are inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Original: ink and watercolour on paper.