The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours
date: label: Date made
content: 1772
name: label: maker
content: Priestley, Joseph
notes: label: Description
content: A book about the Science and Philosophy of Vision, Light, and Colours. First Volume of the history of all the branches of experimental philosophy. A Biographical chart of discoveries in front and 173 illustrations in the back. 812 pages plus index. 1772. New cloth binding, blue.
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content: Author: Joseph Priestley. Publisher: J. Johnson
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content: Inside the cover on the first page of the original document is the name Irwin G. Priest, 1926. Priest is responsible for many articles in the Journal of the Optical Society of America and served as its President 1928-1929.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Books
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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.77.14.20
label: catalog number
content: 77.14.20
label: accession number
content: 299134
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content: Book
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content: book
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 cm x 20 cm x 6.5 cm; 10 5/8 in x 7 7/8 in x 2 9/16 in