RefNo | HS/17/66 |
Level | Item |
Title | Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to George Gabriel Stokes, dated at Collingwood |
Creator | John Frederick William Herschel |
Date | 5 May 1867 |
Description | Draft in John Herschel's hand. Comments on impossibility of increasing the intrinsic illumination of a source with a telescope; how to obtain the spectrum of red flames of the sun. |
Language | English |
Extent | 4pp |
Format | Manuscript |
Place origin | Collingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent |
Origin coordinates | 51.035306, 0.513556 |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | Original available: Cambridge University Library 7656/H713; copy: HS/24/197 |
RelatedRecord | HS/24/197 |
URLDescription | Also available on Epsilon |
URL | https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel1441
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Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |
NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903) | 1819 - 1903 |