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IN the reaction against the arbitrariness of prismatic spectra there seems to be danger that the claim to ascendency of the so-called diffraction spectrum may be overrated. On this system the rays are spaced so that equal intervals correspond to equal differences of wavelength, and the arrangesnent possesses indisputably the advantage that it is independent of the properties of any kind of matter. This advantage, however, would not be lost, if ins ead of the simple wave-length we substituted any function thereof; and the question presents itself whether there is any reason for preferring one form of the function to another.
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RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION OF ENERGY IN THE SPECTRUM . Nature 27, 559–560 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027559a0
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