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NICOL, WILLIAM

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 662 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NICOL, WILLIAM (? 1768-1851}, Scottish physicist, was born about 1768, and died as Edinburgh on the 2nd of September
1851. Nothing is known of his early history beyond the fact that, after amassing a small competence as a popular lecturer on natural philosophy, he settled in Edinburgh to live a very retired
life
  in the society of his apparatus alone. Besides the invention of the prism known by his name (" A method of increasing the divergence of the two rays in calcareous spar, so as to produce a single image," New Edin. Journ., 1828), he devoted himself chiefly to the examination of fluid-filled cavities in crystals, and of the microscopic structure of various kinds of fossil
wood
 . His skill as a working lapidary was very
great
 ; and he prepared a number of lenses of garnet and other precious stones, which he preferred to the achromatic microscopes of the time.


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