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Contains plate.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Farther experiments and observations on the affections and properties of light'

Read 15 June 1797

Reference number
L&P/11/32
Earliest possible date
1797
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
24 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Further experiments and observations on the affections and properties of light' by Henry Brougham, 1797, L&P/11/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_32/paper-further-experiments-and-observations-on-the-affections-and-properties-of-light-by-henry-brougham, accessed on 12 May 2026

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