Data Acquisition, Reduction, and Analysis in Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy

The art as well as the science of data acquisition and analysis in the IR and visible regions of the spectrum has a long and often elegant history. Nevertheless, this review is a discussion of the state-of-the-art in data acquisition and analysis in spectrophotometry. String galvanometers and huge gratting circles and the Herculean labors of those persons who acquired early data, though fascinating, are left to a more competent historian of spectroscopy.