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Also, look at my wee vintage Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
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Collect 'em all! Have you gone through them to see how much your beloved optical constants have changed over the years?
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Not much to know in those days.
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Yep! I've been trying to track down good lists of specific rotation, and they seem most prevalent in the older editions.
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I’d say that branch of polarimetry is ripe for disruption, but the market told me several times “meh don’t bother.”
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back when, the handbook actually was a book to fit a hand. my late father-in-law's college copy was so small.