| RefNo | PT/23/1 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'On the chemical action of the rays of the solar spectrum on preparations of silver and other substances both metallic and non-metallic, and on some photographic processes' by Sir J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel |
| Date | [1840] |
| Description | 108 manuscript pages and one plate showing luminous and photographic spectra.
Subject: Chemistry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the chemical action of the rays of the solar spectrum on preparations of silver and other substances, both metallic and non-metallic, and on some photographic processes'.
Received and read by the Royal Society on 20 February 1840.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 4, 1843. |
| Extent | 109p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0100 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1840.0002 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/23/1/1 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); mathematician and astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |