Optical effects during the heat treatment of glass mother and child (Picture) Practice at Silverstone

(Picture) Practice at Silverstone

7th November 1973

Rabbist's Skins

In the 18th century Robert Adam was commissioned to remodel the interior of the house and Capability Brown to lay out the gardens

Optical effects during the heat treatment of glass mother and child (Picture) Practice at SilverstonePlate 5 from the paper 'On new properties of heat, as exhibited in its propagation along plates of glass', by David Brewster, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 46 114. Figures 45 55, individual drawings, one coloured, mounted on a backing sheet. Original: ink and watercolour on paper. 1815