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At the request of the Council, Professor Tait gave an Address on Spectrum Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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I should not have thought of appearing before you to-night to lecture on so hackneyed a subject, had I not been assured by several members of the Council that such an address was really desired by many Fellows of the Society. It is a subject to which I have not paid very special attention, partly because it is in so many and such good hands, and partly because (except from the point of view of theory) it requires for its extension, especially to astronomy, very costly instrumental appliances and a great sacrifice of time.

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Proceedings 1870-71
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 7 , 1872 , pp. 455 - 461
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1872

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page 455 note * L. c. p. 103.

page 457 note * Some frantic partisans of Papin, &c, deny almost all credit to Watt in the matter of the steam-engine! No farther examples need be cited.

page 460 note * See the Abstract of my paper on Comets, Proc. R.S.E., 1868–9.