Born Derby, England, 24 July 1843
Died Folkestone, Kent, England, 2 December 1920
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——— (1878). Emulsion Processes in Photography. London: Piper and Carter. (Subsequent editions published as Photography with Emulsions.)
——— (1880). “On the Photographic Method of Mapping the least Refrangible End of the Solar Spectrum.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 171: 653–667.
——— (1887). Thebes and Its Five Greater Temples. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. (Includes discussion of transit of Venus observations of 1874.)
——— (1887). “Transmission of Sunlight through the Earth's Atmosphere.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 178: 251–283.
——— (1891). Colour Measurement and Mixture. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. New York: E. and J. B. Young and Co.
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Hearnshaw, J. (2007). Abney, William de Wiveleslie. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_10
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