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Contains figure.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments and observations on the inflection, reflection, and colours of light'

Read 28 January 1796

Reference number
L&P/10/142
Earliest possible date
1796
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
29 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Henry Peter Brougham

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Henry Peter Brougham, Paper, 'Experiments and observations on the inflection, reflection and colours of light' by Henry Brougham, 1796, L&P/10/142, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_142/paper-experiments-and-observations-on-the-inflection-reflection-and-colours-of-light-by-henry-brougham, accessed on 21 January 2025

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