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Title: Diagram of William Herschel's 1800 experiment with spectrum analysis
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Diagram of William Herschel's 1800 experiment with spectrum analysis. The experiment was designed to measure the temperature of colors in the solar spectrum. Image photographed from a page in a book.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: COPC 1456
29453
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1793
Subject: Spectrum analysis--Instruments
Spectrum analysis--Experiments
Temperature measuring instruments
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738-1822
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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