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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the theory of certain bands seen in the spectrum'.

Communicated by Rev Baden Powell. Received and read by the Royal Society on 25 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/34/14
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1848
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Ink on paper
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36 pages
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Manuscript

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George Gabriel Stokes

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George Gabriel Stokes, Paper, 'On the theory of certain bands seen in the spectrum' by G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, 1848, PT/34/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_34_14/paper-on-the-theory-of-certain-bands-seen-in-the-spectrum-by-g-g-george-gabriel-stokes, accessed on 17 April 2025

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