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RefNoRR/7/264
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by James Prescott Joule, on a paper 'On the radiation of heat from the moon, the law of its absorption by our atmosphere, and of its variation in amount with her phases' by Laurence Parsons, Earl of Rosse
Date4 June 1873
DescriptionRecommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The referee is unwell and unable to provide a detailed report on the paper. The author's 'observations are very numerous and appear to have been very carefully made'.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1873].
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1873.0017
RelatedRecordRR/7/263
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7041Joule; James Prescott (1818 - 1889); physicist1818 - 1889
NA296Parsons; Laurence (1840 - 1908); 4th Earl of Rosse1840 - 1908
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