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RefNoPT/4/6/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, eight figures showing light passing through object glasses by unknown artist
Date[1810]
DescriptionPlate with eight diagrams drawn in ink. Likely drawn by William Herschel.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Supplement to the first and second part of the paper of experiments, for investigating the cause of coloured concentric rings between object glasses, and other appearances of a similar nature'.

Read 15 March 1810.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk diagram on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0206
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1810.0009
RelatedRecordPT/4/6
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8060Herschel; Sir; William (1738 - 1822); astronomer1738 - 1822
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