Spectrum analysis in its application to terrestrial substances, and the physical constitution of the heavenly bodies / familiarly explained by H. Schellen ; translated from the second enlarged and revised German edition by Jane and Caroline Lassell ; edited with notes by William Huggins ; with numerous woodcuts and coloured plates, and Ångström's and Kirchhoff's maps.
A popular scientific treatise on spectrum analysis by the German schoolmaster Heinrich Schellen, translated by Jane and Caroline Lassell and annotated by astronomer William Huggins for English general readers in 1872. Wood-engraved spectra fill black fields with fine vertical line rulings and stipple gradients, alongside a stippled total eclipse showing corona and prominences, and labelled element line charts.





















































































































































































































































