Calcite: The Miracle Mineral of the History of Polarization

Calcite: The Miracle Mineral of the History of Polarization

So one rock proved so problematic to the history of physics that it really deserves it’s own special place in the history books. Because without it we’d have never found out about polarization or the transverse wave nature of light. Meet Calcite.

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