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Diagrams, graphs of light reflection and apparatus by [Friedrich] Veith

Reference number: PT/75/8/27

Date: 1859

Description

Plate 43, figures 1, 3, and 13-16 showing graphic representations of the movement and reflection of light rays observed in Bunsen and Roscoe's experiments, as well as an apparatus used to compare various circular portions of the zenith of a cloudless sky. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Figure 3 is drawn separately and pasted onto the sheet with the other figures, and is also signed bottom right 'Veith zez.' The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Physics / Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Photo-chemical researches.—Part IV' by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Henry Enfield Roscoe.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 26 May 1859.

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PT/75/8/27
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1859
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Graphite on paper
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1 page
Format
Diagram

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Robert Wilhelm Bunsen

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Henry Enfield Roscoe

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Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, Henry Enfield Roscoe, Diagrams, graphs of light reflection and apparatus by [Friedrich] Veith, 1859, PT/75/8/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_8_27/diagrams-graphs-of-light-reflection-and-apparatus-by-friedrich-veith, accessed on 18 April 2026

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