Note fragment from Mary Somerville

Made:
1800-1899
maker:
Somerville, Mary Fairfax

Fragment of a note which accompanied a prism. 'This is the Prism mentioned in my autobiography [Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age] with which Dr Wollaston discovered the black lines in the solar spectrum'.

Details

Extent:
130
170
Identifier:
MS/1170
Access:
Open Access