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Image number: RS.10043
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Monochromatic lamps and filtered spectra
Date
1823
Creator
William Home Lizars (1788 - 1859, British) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X40/8
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 258mm
width (print): 208mm
width (print): 208mm
Subject
Description
Figures showing monochromatic lamps fuelled by alcohol diluted in water to produce a yellow flame (figures 1-3), with views of the effects on the spectrum created by filtering light through various types of coloured glass (figure 4 numbers 1-16).
Plate 28 from the paper “Description of a monochromatic lamp for microscopical purposes, &c. with remarks on the absorption of the prismatic rays by coloured media.”, by David Brewster, originally published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume 9 (1823) pp.433-444. Inscribed upper right ‘PLATE XXVIII Engraved for the Edinr.Roy. Soc. Tran. Vol.IX p.444.’ Inscribed bottom right ‘W.H.Lizars Sculpt..’
Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) Scottish physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815.
Plate 28 from the paper “Description of a monochromatic lamp for microscopical purposes, &c. with remarks on the absorption of the prismatic rays by coloured media.”, by David Brewster, originally published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume 9 (1823) pp.433-444. Inscribed upper right ‘PLATE XXVIII Engraved for the Edinr.Roy. Soc. Tran. Vol.IX p.444.’ Inscribed bottom right ‘W.H.Lizars Sculpt..’
Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) Scottish physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815.
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