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RefNoPP/23/16
Previous numbersPP/55/17
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'The thermal radiation from Sun spots. Preliminary notes of observations made at Daramona, Streete, Co. Westmeath [Ireland], 1893' by William Edward Wilson
Date[1893-1894]
DescriptionWilson writes: 'These observations were made by means of a large heliostat, lent by the Royal Society, and a Boys’s radio-micrometer. The heliostat consists of a plane silver-on-glass mirror of 15 in. aperture. It is mounted equatorially, and driven by a clock.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Meteorology / Astronomy

Received 4 January 1894. Read 15 March 1894. Communicated by George Johnstone Stoney.

A version of this paper was published in volume 55 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The thermal radiation from Sun spots. Preliminary notes of observations made at Daramona, Streete, Co. Westmeath, 1893'.
Extent11p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1894.0038
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5490Wilson; William Edward (1851 - 1908); astronomer1851 - 1908
NA8284Stoney; George Johnstone (1826 - 1911)1826 - 1911
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