Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9117
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Images of objects seen through prisms
Date
1874
Creator
C Laplante, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
50055
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 97mm
width (print): 101mm
width (print): 101mm
Subject
Content object
Description
The refraction of candlelight through a prism, from the chapter 'The birth of spectrum analysis', an illustration from Contributions to solar physics, by J Norman Lockyer (London, 1874).
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