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Concept

Light

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  • A tree bearing fruit labelled with virtues; representing the life of the Christian. Coloured etching by J. Couse, c. 1780, after J. Bakewell.
  • On the elements of light and their identity with those of matter, radiant and fixed / [John Howard Kyan].
  • Light energy : its physics, physiological action and therapeutic applications / by Margaret A. Cleaves.
  • Hennig Brand, the German alchemist, discovering phosphorus. Etching, 19th century.
  • Chemistry: burning-glasses and a glass-polishing machine. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1799.
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Catalogue

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

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

    | Date: 1868 | Reference: 47500i
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    Optics: Thomas Young's apparatus for viewing thin-film colour interference fringes. Engraving by H. Mutlow, c.1804.

    | Reference: 47501i
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    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
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    Optics: emission spectra of various metals. Colour aquatint by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883.

    | Date: 1883 | Reference: 47499i
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