Subject List of Works on Sound and Light (including Music, Musical Instruments, and General Optical Instruments) in the Library of the Patent Office

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H.M. Stationery Office, 1914 - 133 pages
 

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Page 110 - SCHELLEN'S SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, in its application to Terrestrial Substances and the Physical Constitution of the Heavenly Bodies. Translated by JANE and C. LASSELL; edited, with Notes, by W. HUGGINS, LL.D. FRS With 13 Plates (6 coloured) and 223 Woodcuts. 8vo. price 28s. CELESTIAL OBJECTS for COMMON TELESCOPES.
Page 74 - Notes of a Course of Nine Lectures on Light, delivered at the Royal Institution. , By John Tyndall, FRS Crown 8vo. is. sewed, or is. 6d. cloth. Notes of a Course of Seven Lectures on Electrical Phenomena and Theories, delivered at the Royal Institution.
Page 22 - New observations concerning the colours of thin transparent bodies, showing those phenomena to be inflections of light, and that the Newtonian fits of easy transmission and reflection derived from them have no existence, but fail equally in their establishment and in their application by Newton to account for the colours of natural bodies.
Page 49 - The Ghost, as produced in the Spectre Drama, popularly illustrating the Marvellous Optical Illusions obtained by the Apparatus called the Dircksian Phantasmagoria.
Page 60 - WRIGHT— Optical Projection : a Treatise on the Use of the Lantern in Exhibition and Scientific Demonstration. By LEWIS WRIGHT, Author of ' Light : a Course of Experimental Optics '. With 232 Illustrations.
Page 118 - TREATISE ON THE STRUCTURE AND PRESERVATION OF THE VIOLIN and all other Bow Instruments. Together with an Account of the most Celebrated Makers and of the Genuine Characteristics of their Instruments. By JA OTTO, with Additions by J.
Page 8 - De la loi du. contraste simultané des couleurs et de l'assortiment des objets colorés, considéré d'après cette loi dans ses rapports avec la peinture, les tapisseries des...
Page 35 - An Essay upon Tune, being an attempt to free the scale of music and the tune of instruments from imperfection
Page 67 - L'auteur y donne la théorie de la. lumière dans le système newtonien , avec de nouvelles solutions des principaux problèmes de dioptrique et de catoptrique.
Page 12 - WERNER'S NOMENCLATURE OF COLOURS. With Additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the Arts and Sciences, particularly Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Morbid Anatomy. Annexed to which are Examples selected from Well-known Objects in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms.

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