Iceland Spar - in Literature

In Literature

Thomas Pynchon refers to the doubling property of Iceland spar in his 2006 novel Against the Day. A section of the novel is entitled "Iceland Spar".

Philip Pullman refers to the doubling property of Iceland spar in his 2000 novel The Amber Spyglass, the third volume in the His Dark Materials trilogy.

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