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RefNoL&P/11/140
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'On solar and terrestrial rays causing heat' by William Herschel [Continued]
Date1800
DescriptionContains plate.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments on the solar, and on the terrestrial rays that occasion heat; with a comparative view of the laws to which light and heat, or rather the rays which occasion them, are subject, in order to determine whether they are the same, or different'

Read 15 May 1800
Extent86p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper and plate
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1800.0016
RelatedRecordL&P/11/131
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8060Herschel; Sir; William (1738 - 1822); astronomer1738 - 1822
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