Spectra from light shone through prisms Size:L: 80 x 60cm James Edwards

James Edwards

with the new London Bridge under construction on right

Bobby Kennedy

'Twas post meridian half past four''

Plate 229 from chapter 19 of Gleanings of natural history

Spectra from light shone through prisms Size:L: 80 x 60cm James EdwardsOptical diagrams showing light shone through prisms and the resulting spectral patterns. Four figures numbered 7 8 and 17 18. Plate 3 from the monograph 'Merkwurdige phanomene an und durch verschiedene prismen: zur richtigen wurdigung der Newton'schen und der von Gothe'schen farbenlehre', [Remarkable phenomena at and through different prisms to correct Newton's and Goethe's theories of colours] by Johann Friedrich Christian Werneburg (Nuremberg,