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Spectrum analysis : six lectures delivered in 1868 before the Society of Apothecaries of London

Roscoe, Henry E. (Henry Enfield), 1833-1915, Schuster, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1934 · 1885 · London : Macmillan and Co. · 4 pictures

Spectrum analysis is a lecture series by chemist Henry Roscoe and physicist Arthur Schuster, published in London in 1885 from lectures given to the Society of Apothecaries in 1868. The pictures are plain black-and-white scientific diagrams: spectra shown as dark-lined bands, a graph of intensity against wavelength, a mechanical apparatus with a rotating disc, and a dark disc with radiating corona rays. A designer might draw on their stark monochrome contrast and the clean geometry of the scientific diagrams.

Spectrum analysis

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