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English: J. Rand Capron's plate of the rainband spectrum, initially published in monochrome in Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine; reproduced in color by scientific instrument maker John Browning in the second (1882) edition of his How to Work With the Spectroscope.
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Two Sources: How to Work With the Spectroscope and

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Author J. Rand Capron, initially published in Symon's Monthly Meteorological Magazine; reproduced by John Browning in 1882 in color in second edition of How to Work With the Spectroscope; reprinted by History of Science Society in Jan 2008

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Absorption bands of atmospheric water vapor, useful in meteorology.

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