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I PROPOSE in this preliminary paper to indicate the means by which I have discovered oxygen and probably nitrogen in the sun, and also to present a new view of the constitution of the solar spectrum.
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Discovery of Oxygen in the Sun by Photography, and a New Theory of the Solar Spectrum 1 . Nature 16, 364–367 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016364b0
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