Monochromatic lamps and filtered spectra Finish:Stretched 'Two Victims of the Turf'

'Two Victims of the Turf'

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Plate 3 from The History and Treatment of the Diseases of the Teeth

head and body angled to the viewer's left

Monochromatic lamps and filtered spectra Finish:Stretched 'Two Victims of the Turf'Figures showing monochromatic lamps fuelled by alcohol diluted in water to produce a yellow flame (figures 1 3), with views of the effects on the spectrum created by filtering light through various types of coloured glass (figure 4 numbers 1 16). Plate 28 from the paper 'Description of a monochromatic lamp for microscopical purposes, &c. with remarks on the absorption of the prismatic rays by coloured media.', by David Brewster, originally published