The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel8830,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel8830
Sends WT a copy of the solar spectrum in which each color is represented clearly in a 'positive' picture. JH sees this as giving hope for color photography.
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
Digital record created by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium
Converted to TEI by Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library
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