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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On spectra of electric of light, as modified by the nature of the electrodes and the media of discharge'.

Written by Robinson at the Armagh Observatory [Northern Ireland]. Received and read by the Royal Society on 19 June 1862.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 12, 1863.

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PT/67/5
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1862
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Ink on paper
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71 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Romney Robinson

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Thomas Romney Robinson, Paper, 'On spectra of electric light as modified by the nature of the electrodes and the media of discharge' by Rev T R [Thomas Romney] Robinson, 1862, PT/67/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_67_5/paper-on-spectra-of-electric-light-as-modified-by-the-nature-of-the-electrodes-and-the-media-of-discharge-by-rev-t-r-thomas-romney-robinson, accessed on 03 December 2024

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