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RefNoPT/30/8/6
LevelItem
TitlePlate, figures 12-13 showing scarlet geranium juice with acid and scarlet balsam petal juice with acid exposed to the sun by M [Mary?] Somerville
CreatorSomerville; Mary (1780-1872); ne Fairfax; afterward Greig; Scottish scientist; astronomer; mathematician
Date20 September 1845
DescriptionFigures 12-13 showing the effect of the sun on drops of scarlet geranium juice mixed with acid and scarlet balsam petal juice mixed with acid.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the action of the rays of the spectrum on vegetable juices. Extract of a letter from Mrs. M. Somerville to Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., dated Rome, September 20, 1845. Communicated by Sir J. Herschel'.

Written by Somerville in Rome [Italy]. Communicated by Herschel. Received by the Royal Society on 6 November 1845. Read 27 November 1845.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionGraphite drawings on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0064
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1846.0009
RelatedRecordPT/30/8
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
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