Paper, 'On the chemical action of the rays of the solar spectrum on preparations of silver and other substances both metallic and non-metallic, and on some photographic processes' by Sir J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel
Reference number: PT/23/1
Date: 1840

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108 manuscript pages and one plate showing luminous and photographic spectra.
Subject: Chemistry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the chemical action of the rays of the solar spectrum on preparations of silver and other substances, both metallic and non-metallic, and on some photographic processes'.
Received and read by the Royal Society on 20 February 1840.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 4, 1843.
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- PT/23/1
- Earliest possible date
- 1840
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- Ink on paper
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- 109 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Paper, 'On the chemical action of the rays of the solar spectrum on preparations of silver and other substances both metallic and non-metallic, and on some photographic processes' by Sir J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel, 1840, PT/23/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_23_1/paper-on-the-chemical-action-of-the-rays-of-the-solar-spectrum-on-preparations-of-silver-and-other-substances-both-metallic-and-non-metallic-and-on-some-photographic-processes-by-sir-j-f-w-john-frederick-william-herschel, accessed on 15 February 2025
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1840
August 1839 - June 1840 Reference number: PT/23
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