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Excerpt from Spectral Photometric Studies
The question which we are then called upon to solve is, does the doubling of the amount of light in this manner double the intensity of every part of the spectrum?
Let us imagine, first, an infinitely narrow slit; the spectrum from such a source may be called a pure spectrum, since any point in it will contain light of but one wave-length. If this slit be moved in a direction perpendicular to the edge of the prism the spectrum will travel in the same direction; and a stationary point, as the light traveled over it, would be illuminated by light of different colors. Next, let us consider a wide slit, and think of its being divided into infinitely narrow ones; we recognize that every part of the spectrum from such a source will consist of lights of different wave-lengths superposed upon each other. Such a spectrum we will call an impure one, and it is with such that we are required to deal in practical measurements.
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