The sunbeam and the spectrascope / by Howard Townsend.

  • Townsend, Howard, 1823-1867.
Date:
1863
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Credit: The sunbeam and the spectrascope / by Howard Townsend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    NOTE For much of this Paper we must acknowledge our in- debtedness to the work of Kirchoff, of the University of Heidelberg, Researches on the Solar Spectrum and Spectra of Chemical Elements,- also, to an article in the Edinburgh Review, Oct., 1862, but particularly to an article on Solar Chemistry, by Robert Hunt, P. R. S., in the Popular Science Review, London, 1862. The demonstrations to illustrate this Paper, were made by Dr. George F. Barker. Professor of Chemistry in the Albany Medical College, and the Spectrascope used was made for Henry Townsend Martin, Esq., of this city, by G. C. Hiscox, Philosophical Instrument Maker.