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44 manuscript pages and three plates showing the photographic apparatus used by Bunsen and Roscoe as well as their experimental results.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Photo-chemical researches.—Part V. On the direct measurement of the chemical action of sunlight'.

Received by the Royal Society on 11 November 1862. Read 11 December 1862.

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 12, 1863.

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PT/68/6
Earliest possible date
1862
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
47 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Wilhelm Bunsen

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Henry Enfield Roscoe

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Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, Henry Enfield Roscoe, Paper, 'Photochemical researches part V' by Robert [Wilhelm] Bunsen and Henry E [Enfield] Roscoe, 1862, PT/68/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_68_6/paper-photochemical-researches-part-v-by-robert-wilhelm-bunsen-and-henry-e-enfield-roscoe, accessed on 11 December 2024

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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