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• Refraction, Double
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• Light -- Refraction
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• Radio -- Receivers and reception -- Refraction
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• Diamond Design (1919 original text with notes and corrections by editor in 2001), by Marcel Tolkowsky, ed. by Jasper Paulsen (illustrated HTML with commentary at folds.net)
• On the Relation Between the Index of Refraction and Concentration of Solutions of Sodium Chloride (University of Chicago physics masters thesis, 1920), by Edward Henry Thomas
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• Diamond Design: A Study of the Reflection and Refraction of Light in a Diamond (London: E. and F. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1919), by Marcel Tolkowsky
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• Handbuch der Angewandten Optik (only volume published, in German; Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1891), by Adolph Steinheil and Ernst Voit, contrib. by Carl August von Steinheil and Philipp Ludwig Seidel
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• Die lichtbrechung in gasen als physikalisches und chemisches problem (F. Vieweg & sohn, 1914), by Stanislaw Loria (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The physiology of vision with special reference to colour blindness. (G. Bell, 1920), by F. W. Edridge-Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Optics (Addison-Wesley, 1949), by Francis Weston Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur la quantité d'éther contenue dans les liquides (M. Nijhoff, 1864), by Martin Hoek and Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simplified method of tracing rays through any optical system of lenses, prisms, and mirrors. (Longmans, Green and co., 1918), by Ludwik Silberstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The refraction of gases at different temperatures and pressures ... ([Lancester, Pa., and Ithaca, N.Y.], 1913), by Hiram Donthitt Ayres (page images at HathiTrust)
• Renati Des Cartes Specimina philosophiae: sev Dissertatio de methodo rectè regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: Dioptrice, et Meteora. Ex gallico translata, & ab auctore perlecta, variisque in locis emendata. Nunc denuo hac editione diligenter recognita, & mendis expurgata. (apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios, 1656), by René Descartes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dioptrik, oder, Anleitung zur Verfertigung der Fernröhre (J.B. Wallishausser, 1830), by J. J. Littrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchungen über die dioptrik der linsen-systeme (F. Vieweg und sohn, 1870), by Hans Sommer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Synoptic radio meteorology (For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1962), by B. R. Bean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations of atmospheric refraction (Office of the Trigonometrical survey of India, 1911), by H. G. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tabellen zur Berechnung der "theoretischen" Molrefraktionen organischer Verbindungen (J. Springer, 1914), by Karl von Auwers and A. Boennecke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Applied optics; the computation of optical systems (Blackie and son, limited, 1918), by Hugo Adolph Steinheil, James Weir French, Phillipp Ludwig von Seidel, Karl August Steinheil, and Ernst Voit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The principles of refraction in the human eye, based on the laws of conjugate foci (Keystone, 1904), by Swan M. Burnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ophthalmoscopy, retinoscopy and refraction (F. A. Davis company, 1931), by W. A. Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ophthalmoscopy, retinoscopy and refraction (F. A. Davis Co., 1928), by W. A. Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchung über die lage der inzidenzpunkte bei reflexion und refraktion an ebne, kugel und kreiszylinder für zwei feste punkte im raum (licht-und augenpunkt) ... (Ww. H. Winterberg's buchdr., 1906), by Max Hellwig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Haupterscheinungen der Brechung und Reflexion des Lichtes, dargestellt nach neuen Methoden. (B.G. Teubner, 1889), by Alexander Gleichen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ophthalmoscopy, retinoscopy and refraction : with new chapter on orthoptics (H. G. Adair, 1937), by W. A. Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theorie der brechung monochromatischer strahlen verschiedener wellenlänge in zylinder-linsen ... (Ww. H. Winterberg's buchdruckerei, 1905), by Otto Götz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Experimentelle beiträge zur kenntnis der optischen eigenschaften der oxyde einiger edlen metalle ... ((S.A.) Druck von R. Berger, 1904), by Paul Graeser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mol-Refraktionen von Quecksilbersalzen (Hansult, 1928), by Alexander Bamberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contrast reduction by time-varying refraction (s.n.], 1956), by William M Whitney, Seibert Q Duntley, and United States. Navy. Bureau of Ships (page images at HathiTrust)
• An instrument for the measurement of the volume absorption coefficient of horizontally stratified water (s.n.], 1960), by John E Tyler, Seibert Q Duntley, and United States. Navy. Bureau of Ships (page images at HathiTrust)
• Applied optics; the computation of optical systems : being the "Handbuch der angewandten optik" of Dr. A. Steinheil and Dr. E. Voit (Blackie and son, ltd., 1918), by Hugo Adolph Steinheil, James Weir French, Philipp Ludwig Seidel, and Ernst. Voit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Index of refraction of calcite for X-rays ([Corning, N.Y., Menasha, Wis., 1924), by Charles Cleveland Hatley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ophthalmoscopy, retinoscopy and refraction (W. A. Fisher, 1922), by W. A. Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Optical truths. (McCormick optical college, 1898), by Charles McCormick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Results of leveling refraction tests by the National Geodetic Survey (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Survey, 1982), by Charles T Whalen, National Ocean Survey, and National Geodetic Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Influence du terme de dispersion de Briot sur les lois de la double réfraction. (Paris, 1890), by Emmanuel Carvallo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spiegelungen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der doppelten Morgen- und Abendröthern erklärt durch ein neu entdecktes Gesetz sphärischer Spiegel, nebst einem Anhang: Lichtschwächung durch Fernröhre und Lichtzerstreuung auf Spiegelflächen. (Berlin, 1884), by Ludwig Pfeil-Burghauss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prismata Nicoliana (Libraria Fr. Nicolai, 1839), by F. W. G. Radicke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Haupt- und Brenn-Punkte eines Linsen-Systemes : Elementare Darstellung der durch Möbius, Gauss und Bessel begründeten Theorie (B. G. Teubner, 1893), by Carl Neumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Populäres Lehrbuch der Optik, Katoptrik und Dioptrik : Theoretische-practischer Unterricht über den Bau aller optischen Instrumente (B.F. Voigt, 1860), by F. W. Barfuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Over de theorie der terugkaatsing en breking van het licht : academisch proefschrift ... (K. van der Zande ..., 1875), by H. A. Lorentz (page images at HathiTrust)
• De formulis dioptricis : programma quo ad lectionem publicam muneris professionis ordinariae astronomiae adeundi causa hora ll. die 21. mensis decembris a. 1844 in aula universitatis Fridericae Guilelmae habendam (Typis Academicis, 1845), by Johann Franz Encke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des images par réflexion et par réfraction. (Germer Baillière, 1866), by Jules Gavarret (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the deviation of rays by prisms ... ([n.p., 1909), by Horace S. Uhler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Refraction of the eye, its diagnosis and the correction of its errors. (P. Blakiston, Son and Co., 1897), by Andrew Stanford Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beitrag zur Theorie der Seitenrefraktion. ([W. Engelmann], 1911), by Gustav Förster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Erosion control of scour during construction. Report 5, Experimental measurements of refraction and diffraction downcoast of an oblique breakwater (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station ;, 1984), by Lyndell Z. Hales and U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (page images at HathiTrust)
• GRAVSAT/GEOPAUSE refraction study (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1977), by S. K. Llewellyn, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Atlantic Science Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration minitrack interferometer refraction corrections (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1971), by P. E. Schmid, Goddard Space Flight Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Intercomparison of the Minitrack and optical tracking networks using GEOS 1 long-arc orbital solutions (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1970), by James G. Marsh, Wayne A. Taylor, Richard J. Sandifer, Clarence E. Doll, Wolf Research and Development Corporation, Goddard Space Flight Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-6673 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration :, 1972), by George G. Steinmetz, Jag J. Singh, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• A comparison of techniques for inversion of radio-ray phase data in presence of ray bending (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1972), by H. Andrew Wallio, Mario D. Grossi, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experiments on the effects of atmospheric refraction and airplane accelerations on sonic-boom ground-pressure patterns (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1966), by Domenic J. Maglieri, Norman J. McLeod, David A. Hilton, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Experimental measurement of optical angular deviation caused by atmospheric turbulence and refraction (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1966), by James L. Hayes, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Measurement of the index of refraction of air and of hydrogen ... (1917), by Berton Arthur Howlett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Untersuchung des Weges eines Lichtstrahls durch eine beliebige Anzahl von brechenden sprärischen Oberflächen (S. Hirzel, 1871), by P. A. Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Einleitung in die Dioptrik des Auges. (Teubner, 1866), by Friedrich Hugo Anton Adolph Wüllner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lenses and refraction (American Medical Association, 1914), by Frank Allport (page images at HathiTrust)
• Renati Des Cartes Specimina philosophiae seu Dissertatio de methodo. Rectè regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: Dioptrice et Meteora. (Apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios, 1656), by René Descartes, Louis Elzevir, and Etienne de Courcelles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur les lois que suivent dans leurs combinaisons entre elles, les couleurs produites par la réfraction de la lumière, ainsi que celles transmises ou réfléchie par les corps dits naturellement colorés (Testu, 1812), by Charles Bourgeois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über den Einfluss der Temperatur auf die Brechung und Dispersion einiger Gläser und Krystalle ... (Druck von B. Vopelius, 1897), by John Oren Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goose Creek area. (State of Illinois, Dept. of Registration and Education, Division of the State Geological Survey, 1957), by Robert Britten Johnson and Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Table of refractions in declinations for every 5@ of latitude and declination for use of U.S. deputy surveyors (s.n.], 1885), by Cortez Fessenden (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on light, vision, & colours comprising a theory on entire new principles deduced by great care and study from common nature, explanatory of much phenomena not before explained or understood (s.n.], 1858), by Thomas Brett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theory of the refraction and the diffraction of neutrons by crystals (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1946), by M. L. Goldberger, Eugene Paul Wigner, Frederick Seitz, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur brechung und dispersion des lichtes in den metallen ... (Buchdruckerei von G. Schade (O. Francke), 1892), by Daniel William Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Brechung des Lichts in Gläsern : insbesondere die achromatische und aplanatische Objectivlinse (B.G. Teubner, 1874), by Wilibald Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Probleme der Brechung und Reflexion. (Teubner, 1876), by Oscar Ro̲thig (page images at HathiTrust)
• The limit of applicability of linear wave refraction theory in a convergence zone (Waterways Experiment Station, 1971), by Robert W. Whalin, Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.), and United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experimental measurements of refraction and diffraction downcoast of an oblique breakwater (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station ;, 1984), by Lyndell Z. Hales and U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anomalies of refraction and of the muscles of the eye. (Hudson-Kimberly publishing co., 1900), by Flavel Benjamin Tiffany (page images at HathiTrust)
• The optical constants of an isolated hexagonal crystal of tellurium. (1922), by George Dewey Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Optical constants of an isolated hexagonal crystal of silenium (1916), by Charles Henry Skinner and State University of Iowa. Department of Physics (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Investigation of atmospheric refraction at low altitudes. (Arctic, Desert, Tropic Information Center, Air University, 1953), by Kaj G. Strand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interaction of waves and currents (Fort Belvoir, Virginia : U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research Center, 1983., 1983), by D. H. Peregrine, Cyril J. Galvin, Ivar G. Jonsson, and Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A numerical model for shoaling and refraction of third-order Stokes waves over an irregular bottom (Vicksburg, Mississippi : U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station ; [Springfield, Virginia] : [Available from National Technical Information Service], 1987., 1987), by Mary A. Cialone and U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (page images at HathiTrust)
• The interpretation of crossed orthogonals in wave refraction phenomena. (U.S. Beach Erosion Board, 1951), by United States. Beach Erosion Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• An empirical assessment of refraction error in leveling as a function of survey order and environment : an analysis of the results of three North Anerican field experiments designed to measure the systematic component of the atmospheric refraction error in leveling (U.S. G.P.O. ;, 1994), by Robert O. Castle, Roger H. Shaw, Robert K. Mark, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physical model study of wave diffraction-refraction at an idealized inlet (US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, 2002), by William C. Seabergh, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station), Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), Coastal Inlets Research Program (U.S.), and United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Refraction operators and ray tracing through cones of constant index (Aberdeen, Maryland : Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1956., 1956), by F. D. Bennett, U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Radar refraction computations using digital vertical-incidence ionograms (Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1975), by Raymond J. Cormier, Kenneth Dieter, and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water wave propagation over uneven bottoms (Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering Laboratory, University of Florida, 1985), by James T. Kirby and United States. Office of Naval Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correction for ionospheric refraction for COBRA DANE (Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts : Air Force Geophysics Laboratories, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1977., 1977), by Richard S. Allen, Maria C. Picardi, Delia E. Donatelli, and U.S. Air Force Geophysics Laboratory. Space Physics Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electric birefringence studies of irradiated desoxyribonucleic acid (West Los Angeles, California : University of California, 1956., 1956), by Amos Norman, John A. Field, Los Angeles University of California, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dioptrische Untersuchungen mit Berücksichtigung der Farbenzerstreuung und der Abweichung wegen Kugelgestalt. (S. Hirzel, 1874), by P. A. Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)
• On certain problems in refraction. ([St. Louis, 1882), by Francis E. Nipher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opuscula posthuma (Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1728), by Christiaan Huygens, Bernhardus Fullenius, Burcherus de Volder, Willem Jacob 's Gravesande, Guido Grandi, John Warner, and Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theorie der astronomischen strahlenbrechung. (Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1828), by J. C. Eduard Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• La théorie de Gauss appliquée a la réfraction par incidence oblique. (A.F. Høst, 1919), by M. Tscherning (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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