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YOUR columns were not long since opened to a discussion, rather long drawn out, on a point of nomenclature. They are now, as ever, open to all reasonable discussion on that most interesting aspect of Nature presented by the spectroscope. I cannot help thinking that some advance might be made if the faculties exhibited in the one were now brought to bear on the other. There seems to be a lamentable tendency in zealous but disorderly minds to pay as little attention as possible to those aids to reasoning—those signs of ideas, which ought to be current coin.
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HERSCHEL, J. Spectroscopic Nomenclature. Nature 5, 499–500 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005499b0
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