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49 manuscript pages including one figure and three separate plates.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the theory of compound colours, and the relations of the colours of the spectrum'.

Communicated by Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes. Received by the Royal Society on 5 January 1860. Read 22 March 1860.

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 10, 1860.

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PT/60/4
Earliest possible date
1860
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
52 pages
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Manuscript

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James Clerk Maxwell

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James Clerk Maxwell, Paper, 'On the theory of compound colours, and the relations of the colours of the spectrum' by J [James] Clerk Maxwell, 1860, PT/60/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_60_4/paper-on-the-theory-of-compound-colours-and-the-relations-of-the-colours-of-the-spectrum-by-j-james-clerk-maxwell, accessed on 10 December 2024

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