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IN “Poems by Two Brothers,” written by the Tennysons, and published in 1827, is a poem called “Phrenology.” The following lines occur:— “Shall we, with Glasgow's learned Watt, maintain That yon bright bow is not produced by rain? Or deem the theory but ill surmised, And call it light (as Brewster) polarised?”
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WHITMELL, C. The Rainbow. Nature 76, 174 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076174a0
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