A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century / Fourth Edition

by Agnes M. Clerke

[368] Observations on Light and Colours, p. 35.

[369] Phil. Trans., vol. lxxv., p. 190.

[370] Denkschriften (Munich. Ac. of Sc.), 1814, 1815, Bd. v., p. 197.

[371] Edinburgh Journal of Science, vol. v., p. 77. See also Phil. Mag., Feb., 1834, vol. iv., p. 112.

[372] Ed. Phil. Trans., vol. xxi., p. 411.

[373] On the Absorption of Light by Coloured Media, Ed. Phil. Trans., vol. ix., p. 445 (1823).

[374] Phil. Mag., vol. xxvii, (ser. iii.), p. 81.

[375] Report Brit. Ass., 1835, p. 11 (pt. ii.). Electrodes are the terminals from one to the other of which the electric spark passes, volatilising and rendering incandescent in its transit some particles of their substance, the characteristic light of which accordingly flashes out in the spectrum.

[376] Phil. Mag., vol. xx., p. 93.

[377] Annalen der Physik, Bd. cxiii., p. 357.