Optics: Thomas Young's apparatus for viewing thin-film colour interference fringes. Engraving by H. Mutlow, c.1804.

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47501i
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[London]

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1 print : engraving ; image and border 15.8 x 9.2 cm

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Dr. Young's apparatus for exhibiting the colours of thin plates. ; Mutlow sc. Russell cot. This is the equipment Young used for his demonstrations, c.1800-1804, vindicating the wave theory of light first posited by Christiaan Huygens in 1678

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Wellcome Collection 47501i

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Engraved by Henry Mutlow at Russell Court, Covent Garden, London

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