| RefNo | PT/60/4/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Plate, 'Instrument for making definite mixtures of the colours of the spectrum' by James Clerk Maxwell |
| Date | [1860] |
| Description | Early drafts of figures 1-2 showing different views of the construction of an apparatus used by Maxwell to make precise mixtures of the colours of the spectrum. Later draft of figures 1-2 found at PT/60/4/3.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the theory of compound colours, and the relations of the colours of the spectrum'.
Communicated by Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes. Received by the Royal Society on 5 January 1860. Read 22 March 1860. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink diagrams on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1859.0074 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1860.0005 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/4/180 |
| RR/4/181 |
| PT/60/4 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8259 | Maxwell; James Clerk (1831 - 1879); physicist | 1831 - 1879 |
| NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903) | 1819 - 1903 |