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DR. PRESTON, in his useful article on Zeeman's phenomenon in NATURE of the 5th inst., has expressed the opinion that some of the resolutions of spectral lines obtained by Michelson's interferometer are illusory (see p. 228). I had occasion some months ago to make use of some of Michelson's results, and came to the same conclusion. In fact, an instrumental resolution of what is in reality a single line may cause it to assume appearances, the principal of which are either a central line with faint appendage lines, or a double line with appendages.
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STONEY, G. Illusory Resolutions of the Lines of a Spectrum. Nature 59, 294–295 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059294e0
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