Item 21 - Letter from George Airy

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Add. MS a/200/21

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Letter from George Airy

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  • 30 Oct. 1837 (Creation)

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4 pp.

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Royal Observatory Greenwich - Answers WW's queries: when Newton's 'analysis is carried to perfection (i.e. so as to shew Fraunhoffer's lines), it has certainly developed original properties of light... Their existence in the diffraction spectrum tendsread more

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