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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The Bakerian Lecture. Experiments and calculations relative to physical optics'

Read 24 November 1803

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L&P/12/60
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1803
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Ink on paper
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15 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Young

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Thomas Young, Paper, 'Experiments and observations relative to physical optica' [Bakerian Lecture] by Thomas Young, 1803, L&P/12/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_60/paper-experiments-and-observations-relative-to-physical-optica-bakerian-lecture-by-thomas-young, accessed on 19 January 2025

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