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THIS book contains an accurate and luminous account of the recent discoveries in celestial chemistry and physics, and especially of the researches of our countrymen Huggins and Lockyer. As regards the completeness of that portion of the work bearing directly upon terrestrial chemistry, readers will, I fear, be disappointed. The first division of the book is devoted to a description of the means employed for the artificial evolution of light and heat of great intensity, beginning with combustions in oxygen, and ending with the electric-light. The second division is headed “The simple and compound spectra in their application to terrestrial matter;” whilst in the third and most important division Schellen considers the application of spectrum analysis to the heavenly bodies. The illustrations throughout the work are good, though many of them are not new, and are borrowed, without acknowledgment, from other books.
Die Spectral Analyse in ihrer Anwendung auf die Stoffe der Erde und die Natur der Himmelskörper.
By Dr. H. Schellen, director der Realschule I.O., Cologne. (Brunswick, Westermann, 1870. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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ROSCOE, H. Die Spectral Analyse in ihrer Anwendung auf die Stoffe der Erde und die Natur der Himmelskörper . Nature 1, 503 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001503a0
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