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Paper, 'On the lines of the solar spectrum' by Sir David Brewster and J H [John Hall] Gladstone

Reference number: PT/60/9

Date: 1860

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40 manuscript pages and one plate showing diagrams of the lines of the solar spectrum.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the lines of the solar spectrum'.

Received by the Royal Society on 26 January 1860. Read 23 February 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/60/9
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1860
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Ink on paper
Page extent
41 pages
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Manuscript

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David Brewster

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John Hall Gladstone

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David Brewster, John Hall Gladstone, Paper, 'On the lines of the solar spectrum' by Sir David Brewster and J H [John Hall] Gladstone, 1860, PT/60/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_60_9/paper-on-the-lines-of-the-solar-spectrum-by-sir-david-brewster-and-j-h-john-hall-gladstone, accessed on 20 September 2024

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