"By means of any regular concave piece of metal... pressed when hot against a clear sheet of , first on one side and then on the other, it is easy to make a lens of ice which may be used... as a ; but this experiment... is far inferior in interest to one invented by Professor Tyndall, in which the heat, instead of being concentrated by ice, is concentrated in ice."
January 1, 1970
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