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Paper, 'Account of Melvill's views of the cause of the different refrangibility of the rays of light' by James Short

Reference number: L&P/2/366

Date: 1753

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. T. Melvil to the Rev. James Bradley, D. D. F. R. S. With a discourse concerning the cause of the different refrangibility of the rays of light'

Read 28 June 1753

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L&P/2/366
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1753
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5 pages
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Manuscript

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James Short

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James Short, Paper, 'Account of Melvill's views of the cause of the different refrangibility of the rays of light' by James Short, 1753, L&P/2/366, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_366/paper-account-of-melvills-views-of-the-cause-of-the-different-refrangibility-of-the-rays-of-light-by-james-short, accessed on 18 February 2025

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