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Unpublished paper, 'On the diurnal temperature of the Earth's surface, with the discussion of a simple formula proposed for approximating to the same' by S M [Solomon Moses] Drach

Reference number: AP/26/3

Date: 27 December 1842

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Drach writes of the difficulties of determining the daily temperatures at any point on the Earth's surface, and shares a formula for approximating daily temperatures.

Includes one page of figures separate to the text. Marked on front as 'Revised copy'.

Subject: Geology / Radiation / Climate

Received 31 December 1842.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the diurnal temperature of the Earth’s surface, and the discussion of a simple formula for ascertaining the same'.

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AP/26/3
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27 December 1842
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20 pages
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Solomon Moses Drach

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Solomon Moses Drach, Unpublished paper, 'On the diurnal temperature of the Earth's surface, with the discussion of a simple formula proposed for approximating to the same' by S M [Solomon Moses] Drach, 27 December 1842, AP/26/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_26_3/unpublished-paper-on-the-diurnal-temperature-of-the-earths-surface-with-the-discussion-of-a-simple-formula-proposed-for-approximating-to-the-same-by-s-m-solomon-moses-drach, accessed on 21 January 2025

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