Spectrum analysis in its application to terrestrial substances, and the physical constitution of the heavenly bodies / familiarly explained by H. Schellen ; translated from the second enlarged and revised German edition by Jane and Caroline Lassell ; edited with notes by William Huggins ; with numerous woodcuts and coloured plates, and Ångström's and Kirchhoff's maps.

Date:
1872
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Credit: Spectrum analysis in its application to terrestrial substances, and the physical constitution of the heavenly bodies / familiarly explained by H. Schellen ; translated from the second enlarged and revised German edition by Jane and Caroline Lassell ; edited with notes by William Huggins ; with numerous woodcuts and coloured plates, and Ångström's and Kirchhoff's maps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    TRANSLATORS' PREFACE. The original of the following work was intro- duced to our notice by Mr. Huggins, to whom we had appealed for information as to the best elementary book on the Spectroscope; and while engaged in its perusal, the interest we felt in the subject suggested the idea of undertaking the translation of the work. Just as we had com- pleted our labours, the second German edition made its appearance, and this necessitated so entire a revision of the whole work as to occasion con- siderable delay. In order to render the work as complete as possible, we have, at the suggestion of the Editor, given in an Appendix Mr. Stoney's important paper On the Cause of the Interrupted Spectra of Gases, and Prof. Young's valuable Catalogue of the lines observed in the spectrum of the chromo- sphere. We have besides inserted in the body