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Unpublished paper, 'Experiments on light' by H F [William Henry Fox] Talbot

Reference number: AP/18/16

Date: June 1834

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In two parts: 1. Microscopic Appearances with Polarised Light; 2. On Photometry.

Subject: Physics / Optics

Read 19 June 1834.

A version of this paper was published by Fox Talbot in the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science: Talbot, H F. 'XLIV. Experiments on light.' The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, volume 5, number 29 (1834), pp. 321-334.

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AP/18/16
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June 1834
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Ink on paper
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24 pages
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Manuscript

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William Henry Fox Talbot

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William Henry Fox Talbot, Unpublished paper, 'Experiments on light' by H F [William Henry Fox] Talbot, June 1834, AP/18/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_18_16/unpublished-paper-experiments-on-light-by-h-f-william-henry-fox-talbot, accessed on 09 December 2023

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