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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- 1753
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XXXVIII. 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 External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1753
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1753.0038
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