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Stokes expands upon a paper previously submitted to the Royal Society (see PT/34/14).

Marked on front as 'withdrawn'. Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Physics / Optics

Received 10 November 1848. Communicated by Baden Powell.

Reference number
AP/31/18
Earliest possible date
1848
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
46 pages
Format
Manuscript

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George Gabriel Stokes

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George Gabriel Stokes, Unpublished appendix, 'Supplement to a paper on the theory of certain bands seen in the spectrum' by George Gabriel Stokes, 1848, AP/31/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_31_18/unpublished-appendix-supplement-to-a-paper-on-the-theory-of-certain-bands-seen-in-the-spectrum-by-george-gabriel-stokes, accessed on 24 March 2025

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