Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects
date: label: Date made
content: 1867
name: label: author
content: Herschel, John F. W.
label: publisher
content: Strahan, Alexander
notes: label: Description
content: Book on Scientific Subjects written by Sir John F.W. Herschel with no photos or plates, but only a few small diagrams. Three of them deal with light and one from 1833 discusses "the absorption light by coloured media..." Heschel died in 1871. 507 pages.
label: Description
content: Inside the front cover is a label for "I. W. Middleton Berry, Ballynegall."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Books
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Albert Boni
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.77.14.15
label: catalog number
content: 77.14.15
label: accession number
content: 299134
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
label: Object Name
content: book
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 13.5 cm x 3.5 cm; 7 1/2 in x 5 5/16 in x 1 3/8 in