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    Image number: RS.10044
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    Red, blue and yellow spectra, with the solar spectrum

    Date
    1834
    Creator
    William Home Lizars (1788 - 1859, British) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X40/11
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 258mm
    width (print): 208mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
    Description
    Figures showing red, yellow and blue spectra with curves of maximum intensity (figures 1-3) and their combination into a solar spectrum (figures 4-5).

    Plate 2 from the paper “On a new analysis of solar light, indicating three primary colours, forming coincident spectra of equal length”, by David Brewster, originally published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume 12 (1834) pp.123-136. Inscribed upper right ‘PLATE II. Roy. Soc. Tran. Vol.XII p.136.’ 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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