Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Porter , Noah (1871), The Sciences of Nature Versus the Science of Man: A Plea for the Science of Man, Retrieved on 2012-06-21Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: history and criticism Memes
21 JUN 2012
Seeing History in the Spectrum of Light
As I strayed into the study of an eminent physicist, I observed hanging against the wall, framed like a choice engraving, several dingy, ribbon-like strips of, I knew not what... My curiosity was at once aroused. What were they? ... They might be shreds of mummy-wraps or bits of friable bark-cloth from the Pacific, ... [or] remnants from a grandmother's wedding dress... They were none of these... He explained that they were carefully-prepared photographs of portions of the Solar Spectrum. I s...Folksonomies: wonder spectroscopy
Folksonomies: wonder spectroscopy
Noah Porter describes his first magical encounter with spectroscopy.