Richard Potter

1799 – 1886

• An elementary treatise on hydrostatics
• An elementary treatise on optics
• Physical optics
• Physical Optics, Part II
• A description of a new construction of Sir Isaac Newton's microscope
• An account of experiments to determine the quantity of light reflected by plane metallic specula under different angles of incidence
• An account of experiments to determine the reflective powers of crown, plate, and flint glass at different angles of incidence
• An elementary treatise on hydrostatics for the use of junior university students
• An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics: For the Use of Junior University Students
• Instructions, mathematical and practical, on a method for polishing concave lenses and specula
• Observations on the meteor called the aurora borealis
• On the general equations for determining the positions and curvatures of arches of Aurora Borealis