Note 131 — Chapter VIII

The details of this curious subject may be studied in the following memoir and communications:—On vision and the action of light on all bodies: by Professor Ludwig Moser, of Königsberg; from Poggendorff’s Annalen, vol. lvi. p. 177, No. 6, 1845. Some remarks on Invisible Light: by Professor Ludwig Moser, of Königsberg; from Poggendorff’s Annalen, vol. lvi. p. 569, No. 8. On the power which light possesses of becoming latent: by Professor Ludwig Moser, of Königsberg; from Poggendorff’s Annalen, vol. lvii. No. 9, p. 1. 1842. On certain spectral appearances, and on the discovery of latent light: by J. W. Draper, M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the University of New York; Phil. Mag. p. 348, Nov. 1842. On a new imponderable substance, and on a class of chemical rays analogous to the rays of dark heat: by Professor Draper; Phil. Mag., Dec. 1842. On the action of the rays of the solar spectrum on the Daguerreotype plate; by Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart.; Phil. Mag., Feb. 1843. See remarks in this paper on the use which Moser has made of coloured glasses: also a communication by Professor Draper, On the rapid Detithonizing power of certain gases and vapours, and on an instantaneous means of producing spectral appearances: Phil. Mag., March 1843; and On the causes which concur in the production of the images of Moser: Comptes Rendus, Nov. 1842. See Scientific Memoirs, vol. iii.