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Call Number:

PH-02351

Collection Name:

Madeira Spectroscopic: Being a Revision of 21 Places in the Red Half of the Solar Visible Spectrum with a Rutherfurd diffraction Grating, at Madeira ... During the Summer of 1881

Creator:

unidentified photographer

No. of Items:

1 item

Span Dates:

1882

Description:

Photographically illustrated book by C. Piazzi (Charles Piazzi) Smyth (1819-1900) entitled Madeira Spectroscopic: Being a Revision of 21 Places in the Red Half of the Solar Visible Spectrum with a Rutherfurd diffraction Grating, at Madeira ... During the Summer of 1881 (Edinbrugh: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1882). The book contains one mounted print, information for which follows.

958:0261:0001 -- Unidentified photographer. Brazen- Head Before Funchal Bay, Maderia, 1881; printed 1882. Woodburytype.

Accession No(s):

958:0261:0001

Location(s):

QC 455 S66 HRC-P (958:0261:0001)
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