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RefNoRR/1/3
LevelItem
TitleReferee'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]
DescriptionRecommended 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].
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1840.0013
RelatedRecordRR/1/2
PT/20/3
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
NA8035Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician1801 - 1892
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