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Image number: RS.9118
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Unequal refrangibility of two differently coloured lights
Date
1874
Creator
C Laplante, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
50055
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 100mm
width (print): 104mm
width (print): 104mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Experiment to demonstrate the unequal refrangibility of two differently coloured lights, an illustration of Newton's first proposition, "Lights which differ in colour differ in refrangibility". From Contributions to solar physics, by J Norman Lockyer (London, 1874).
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