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Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on a paper 'On the theoretical explanation of an apparent new polarity in light' by George Biddell Airy

Reference number: RR/1/3

Date: 1832

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Referee states that the paper appears 'to contain the true explanation of the phenomenon of the spectral bands', which has been an intensely studied subject in photology for a long time.

Subject: Optics

[Work integrated in the Bakerian Lecture published in Philosophical Transactions, 1840].

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RR/1/3
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1832
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on a paper 'On the theoretical explanation of an apparent new polarity in light' by George Biddell Airy, 1832, RR/1/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1_3/referees-report-by-john-frederick-william-herschel-on-a-paper-on-the-theoretical-explanation-of-an-apparent-new-polarity-in-light-by-george-biddell-airy, accessed on 16 September 2024

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