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Analysed diffraction-limited resolving power for finite optical apertures and spectral instruments, relating aperture, wavelength and the separation of distinguishable image or spectral features.
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Scientific scope
The record is the exact 1879 XXXI instalment identified by DOI 10.1080/14786447908639684. Other instalments in Rayleigh’s series, earlier Airy diffraction work and later resolution criteria remain separate.
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- Rayleigh, Investigations in optics with special reference to the spectroscope
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John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh
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Rayleigh: optical resolving power for the spectroscope
Analysed diffraction-limited resolving power for finite optical apertures and spectral instruments, relating aperture, wavelength and the separation of distinguishable image or spectral features.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact 1879 XXXI instalment identified by DOI 10.1080/14786447908639684. Other instalments in Rayleigh’s series, earlier Airy diffraction work and later resolution criteria remain separate.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.