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IN the number of NATURE issued on September 2, 1897, a short account is given (p. 420) of the recent work which has been done in the study of “the radiation of light in the magnetic field,” and it is there remarked that it would be very desirable if the effects described by Prof. Zeeman were reproduced by photography. This, indeed, appeared to be all the more necessary in consequence of the doubts expressed and entertained as to whether the effect was a simple broadening of the spectral lines, or the production of doublets and triplets, or a combination of both effects. I accordingly availed myself of the opportunity afforded me, through the courtesy of the Royal University, of using for this purpose the splendid Rowland's concave grating mounted in the Physical Laboratory at Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin.
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PRESTON, T. The Zeeman Effect Photographed. Nature 57, 173 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057173b0
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