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Unpublished paper, 'On the connexion between refracted and diffracted light' by Paul Cooper

Reference number: AP/18/2

Date: January 1834

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Cooper writes on the Newtonian theory of optics and the results of an experiment in which light is refracted through a prism onto a screen, producing white light with fringed edges. There is one diagram of the experimental setup included in the text. Includes annotations in pencil throughout. Front page has been marked 'postponed May 13th' by John George Children.

Subject: Physics / Optics

Received 23 January 1834 by John George Children. Communicated by Children.

Written by Cooper in Shepton Mallett [Somerset, England].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the connexion between refracted and diffracted light'.

Reference number
AP/18/2
Earliest possible date
January 1834
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
22 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Unpublished paper, 'On the connexion between refracted and diffracted light' by Paul Cooper, January 1834, AP/18/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_18_2/unpublished-paper-on-the-connexion-between-refracted-and-diffracted-light-by-paul-cooper, accessed on 03 December 2024

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