Manuscripts

Excerpts from Edmond Becquerel's La lumière, ses causes et ses effects

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Description: Handwritten excerpts, in English, from Becquerel's publication La lumière, ses causes et ses effects. First manuscript is pages 207-213 of Becquerel's publication; the second one begins on page 322 and includes 19 pages of handwritten text.. The manuscripts are stamped "From the William J. Hammer Scientific Collection."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1867.
Call number: mssHM 73893-73894
Creator: Becquerel, Edmond (1820-1891)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Associated people: Hammer, William Joseph, (1858-1934,)
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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