Bestimmung des Brechungs- und Farbenzerstreuungs- Vermögens verschiedener Glasarten, pp. 193-226 and three engraved plates in: Denkschriften der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München für die Jahre 1814 und 1815.
München: Lentner, [1817]. First edition, journal issue, of the founding work of astrophysics, the discovery of the absorption lines in the solar spectrum; the second plate, which reproduces Fraunhofer’s drawing of these lines (etched by Fraunhofer himself), is the first illustration of the solar spectrum. “In 1802, when describing his..... More
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