‘Fringes’
Date
1853
Creator
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778 - 1868, British) , British Lord Chancellor
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Dimensions
height (painting): 145mm
width (painting): 221mm
width (painting): 221mm
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Description
Pattern of interference fringes seen in an experiment using prisms with a small lamp as a light source.
Illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “Further experiments and observations on the properties of light” by Henry Brougham, in Abstracts of the papers communicated to the Royal Society of London, vol.6 (1850-1854), pp.312-319.
Captioned below ‘FRINGES’. Not signed.
Lord Brougham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803.
Illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “Further experiments and observations on the properties of light” by Henry Brougham, in Abstracts of the papers communicated to the Royal Society of London, vol.6 (1850-1854), pp.312-319.
Captioned below ‘FRINGES’. Not signed.
Lord Brougham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803.
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