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Level | Item |
Title | Printed proof, 'On the chief line in the spectrum of the nebulae' by J [Joseph] Norman Lockyer |
Date | 1890 |
Description | A printed proof of Lockyer's paper on the spectrum of the nebulae. The printed document is glued to lined paper in sections and extensive annotations are written around the pages. Lockyer writes: 'In 1887, reasoning from the spectral phenomena in stars of Vogel’s Class IlIa, which my researches proved to be due to the mixture of bright flutings of carbon and dark flutings of manganese and other substances, I came to the conclusion that these stars could not be stars in the ordinary sense but swarms of bodies separated from each other. I next showed, reasoning again from the spectral phenomena, that these bodies were in all probability meteorites or particles of meteoritic dust.'
Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Note on front reads '28/6/90 - REVISE'.
Subject: Spectroscopy / Astronomy
Received 15 January 1890.
A version of this paper was published in volume 48 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the chief line in the spectrum of the nebulæ'. |
Extent | 29p |
Format | Manuscript |
Printed |
PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
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AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1890.0024 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA6349 | Lockyer; Sir; Joseph Norman (1836 - 1920) | 1836 - 1920 |