Paper, 'On the theory of compound colours, and the relations of the colours of the spectrum' by J [James] Clerk Maxwell
Reference number: PT/60/4
Date: 1860
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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
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- 1860
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- 52 pages
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- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1860
November 1858 - July 1860 Reference number: PT/60
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