Diagram for explaining the rainbow
Date
1700
Creator
Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p139
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 108mm
width (paper): 178mm
width (paper): 178mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Diagram for explaining the rainbow, printed in E. Halley, ‘De iride, sive de arcu caelesti, dissertatio Geometrica’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, no. 267 (1700), pp. 714-25.
Object history
E. Halley, ‘De iride, sive de arcu caelesti, dissertatio Geometrica’, Phil. Trans., vol. 22, no. 267 (1700), pp. 714-25.
Related fellows
Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
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