[CLIFTON (Robert Bellamy, 1836-1921, F.R.S., Professor of Natural Philosophy at Owen's College, Manchester, 1860-1865, for 50 years Professor of Experimental Philosophy at Oxford and the designer and director of the Clarendon laboratory, 1865-1915)]

Printed Syllabus of the Royal Manchester Institution of two public lectures by Professor Clifton "On Light and Colour", and one "On the Electric Spark", dealing with the theory of the spectrum, the colour of transparent bodies, interference, and the "experimentum crucis" between the wave theory and the emission theory, diffraction and polarization, the third begins with a "brief sketch of ... the discovery of the Induction of Dynamic Electricity", and ends with "the stratification of the spark in rarefied gas", on the conjugate leaf are interesting "Regulations" for various levels of subscription and the introduction of visitors, 2 sides 8¼" x 5¼", 15th - 29th January at 3.p.m., Manchester,

Clifton went up to St. John's, Cambridge in 1855 and was Professor at Manchester when only 24.

Item Date:  1863

Stock No:  53479      £35

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