Beauty in Shades of Gray of Stellar Spectra, 1863

JF Ptak Science Books  Quick Post

This very quick posting is made in relation to a book just posted to the blog's bookstore (Gustav Kirchhoff's  "Zur Geschichte der Spectral-Analyse under der Analyse der Sonnenatmosphaere"(On the history of spectral analysis and the analysis of the solar atmosphere)--or at least in relation to another object in the 1863 Annalen der Physik volume.  And that other object is this, this beautiful series of diagrams illustrating "Ueber das Verhalten einiger Farbstoffe im Sonnenspectrum" by J. Haerlin, on elements in the spectrum of the Sun that appeared in teh same volume, tucked away at the end of the journal--art in science.

 

And this, a bit of detail into the grays: