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Paper, 'Method of examining refractive and dispersive powers by prismatic reflection' by William Hyde Wollaston

Reference number: L&P/12/30

Date: 1802

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A method of examining refractive and dispersive powers, by prismatic reflection'

Read 24 June 1802

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L&P/12/30
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1802
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28 pages
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William Hyde Wollaston, Paper, 'Method of examining refractive and dispersive powers by prismatic reflection' by William Hyde Wollaston, 1802, L&P/12/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_30/paper-method-of-examining-refractive-and-dispersive-powers-by-prismatic-reflection-by-william-hyde-wollaston, accessed on 17 September 2026

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