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  • A second course of light / by A.E.E. McKenzie.

    • McKenzie, A. E. E. (Arthur Edward Ellard)
    Date
    1959
    • Books
  • Optics: a colour-circle, after M. E. Chevreul. Colour aquatint (?) by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1868.

    • Digeon, René Henri, active 1866-1872.
    Date
    1868
    Reference
    47500i
    • Pictures
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  • Optics: Thomas Young's apparatus for viewing thin-film colour interference fringes. Engraving by H. Mutlow, c.1804.

    • Mutlow, H.
    Reference
    47501i
    • Pictures
  • On light. Third course, On the beneficial effects of light, delivered at Aberdeen in November, 1885 / by Gabriel Stokes.

    • Stokes, George Gabriel, 1819-1903.
    Date
    1887
    • Books
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  • Optics: emission spectra of various metals. Colour aquatint by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883.

    • Digeon, René Henri, active 1866-1872.
    Date
    1883
    Reference
    47499i
    • Pictures
  • Experiments and observations on the light which is spontaneously emitted, with some degree of permanency, from various bodies. / By Nathaniel Hulme, M.D. F.R.S. and A.S. From the Philosophical Transactions.

    • Hulme, Nathaniel, 1732-1807.
    Date
    1800
    • Books
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  • Hints to students on the use of the eyes / by Edward Reynolds.

    • Reynolds, Edward, 1793-1881.
    Date
    1835
    • Books
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  • Photoperiodic regulation of insect and molluscan hormones.

    • Symposium on Photoperiodic Regulation of Insect and Molluscan Hormones (1983 : Ciba Foundation)
    Date
    1984
    • Books
  • A syllabus of a course of lectures on natural and experimental philosophy / By Thomas Young.

    • Young, Thomas, 1773-1829.
    Date
    1802
    • Books
  • Biot, Jean-Baptiste (1774-1862), French mathematician and physicist

    • Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 1774-1862.
    Date
    c.1800-1937
    Reference
    MSS.7038 & 8316
    • Archives and manuscripts
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