On the Light from the Sky, Its Polarization and Colour

Rayleigh, L. (1871). On the Light from the Sky, Its Polarization and Colour. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1871

DOI

10.1080/14786447108640452

Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/14786447108640452

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physical_sciences

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• Selective Propagation
  • A sunset reddens by exactly this mechanism, and the sky is in perfect order.

    This sourceEstablishes strongly wavelength-dependent scattering, so a transmitted beam reddens as path length grows and a low sun is seen through a reddened, not a defective, sky.

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