74. Röntgen (Wilhelm Conrad) Eine Neue Art von Strahlen, second separate edition, original printed wrappers, browning to fraying at edges, splitting at spine, [Norman 1841], 8vo, Würzburg, 1896.
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Scarce. The article originally appeared in the Sitzungs-Berichte of the Würzburg Physical-Medical Society, to assure fast dissemination. Röntgen was the first to apply the term ‘X-Ray’, after observing the fluorescent reaction of barium platinocyanide crystals by then unknown rays in a Crookes vacuum tube.
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