| Reference number | RR/1/3 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on a paper 'On the theoretical explanation of an apparent new polarity in light' by George Biddell Airy |
| Date | [1832] |
| Description | Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Referee states that the paper appears 'to contain the true explanation of the phenomenon of the spectral bands', which has been an intensely studied subject in photology for a long time.
Subject: Optics
[Work integrated in the Bakerian Lecture published in Philosophical Transactions, 1840]. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Letter on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1840.0013 |
| Related records in the catalogue | RR/1/2 |
| PT/20/3 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); mathematician and astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |
| NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |