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Spectroscopy is nowadays a very respectable and useful branch of physics (without which astrophysics and quantum theory would be impossible); it is also widely used in industry. The word “spectrum” means image, and it is here the image of the colors of a given light ray, the image of the different wavelengths it contains presented separately from each other; a spectroscope, then, is a separator of the different colors or wavelengths of a given light.
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Agassi, J. (1993). The Rise of Spectroscopy. In: Radiation Theory and the Quantum Revolution. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7216-4_3
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