Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10782

    Spectroscope

    Date
    1863
    Creator
    John Peter Gassiot (1797 - 1877, British) , Electrician
    Object type
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    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 381mm
    width (drawing): 245mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
    Content object
    Description
    Diagram of a spectroscope constructed by Spencer, Browning and Company, instrument-makers of London, for John Peter Gassiot. The instrument as seen from above, looking down on its upper surface, showing the bed M-N upon which nine prisms are mounted, with bars carrying the two telescopes.

    Unpublished plate 2 illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “On spectrum analysis with a description of a large spectroscope having nine prisms and achromatic telescopes of two feet focal length” by John Peter Gassiot. This was abstracted in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.12 (1862-1863), pp.536-538.

    John Peter Gassiot (1797-1877), British electrician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1840.
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