Oct 1935
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Nature, Volume 136, Issue 3443, pp. 684-685 (1935).
Physics
Scientific paper
IN response to Mr. Twyman's appeal1, may I express the hope that the term ``spectrum analysis'' will continue to be used ``to denote the analysis of substances by means of their spectra''? The term is a technical one with an established meaning which a student has to learn, and it would introduce a very bad principle to change such terms whenever opportunities arise for them to be misunderstood by those who have not taken the trouble to find out what they mean. We might, for example, be asked to abandon the term `solar time', because a post-relativity physicist takes it to be the time kept by an observer on the sun; or to give up speaking of `stellar magnitudes' now that we have learnt to measure stellar volumes.
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