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Paper, 'On a new case of the interference of light' by Rev Baden Powell

Reference number: PT/34/13

Date: 1848

Description

25 manuscript pages and one plate showing arrangements of plates, media, prisms, and calc-spar [calcite] for various experiments on light intereference.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a new case of the interference of light'.

Received by the Royal Society on 6 April 1848. Read 18 May 1848.

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 5, 1851.

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PT/34/13
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1848
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Ink on paper
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26 pages
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Manuscript

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Baden Powell

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Baden Powell, Paper, 'On a new case of the interference of light' by Rev Baden Powell, 1848, PT/34/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_34_13/paper-on-a-new-case-of-the-interference-of-light-by-rev-baden-powell, accessed on 06 December 2024

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