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RefNoMS/603/11/82
Previous numbers2024
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Vito Volterra, Via in Lucina 17, Rome, to Sir Joseph Larmor, Cambridge
CreatorVolterra; Vito (1860-1940); Italian mathematician and physicist
RecipientLarmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist
Date22 October 1920
DescriptionOn his return to Rome, he found James Clerk Maxwell's book 'Matter and Motion', sent by Larmor and he gives thanks for this and Larmor's notes. He has found a copy of [Adolfo] Bartoli's paper on motion produced by light and heat, in the second part of which is a demonstration of the pressure of light. This was privately published, rather than in a scientific journal, and few scholars have read the original. He would be happy to send this to Larmor as a friendly token of their time together at Strasbourg.

With some small pencil sketches by Joseph Larmor
Extent2p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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CodePersonNameDates
NA1660Volterra; Vito (1860 - 1940)1860 - 1940
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