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A GLASS prism, said to have been the property of Isaac Newton, is on exhibition in the British Museum, Medieval Collections Room, Bay XVI. It was presented in 1927 by the Rev. H. T. Inman of Grantham, a collateral descendant of Newton, and resembles quite closely the prism seen in the hand of the statue of Newton in the ante-chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge. A question which naturally occurs to men of science who see this prism is whether it is one of those which Newton used in his famous experiments on the spectrum in 1666, described in his ” Optical Lectures” of 1669, pp. 58 and 75, and reported also in Phil. Trans., 6, 3075 (1671).
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TAYLOR, L. Newton's Prism in the British Museum. Nature 138, 585 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138585a0
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