Letter, from William Thomson to Sir John Herschel, dated at Largs by Greenock

Reference number: HS/17/351a

Date: 24 September 1868

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Replies in detail to John Frederick William Herschel's objection to explaining the retardation of the earth's rotation as due to tidal friction, John Frederick William Herschel having urged that this effect should be analyzed in terms of momentum rather than of vis viva [kinetic energy], as William Thomson maintained.

Reference number: HS/17/351a
Earliest possible date: 24 September 1868
Page extent: 12 pages
Format: Manuscript
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William Thomson, Letter, from William Thomson to Sir John Herschel, dated at Largs by Greenock, 24 September 1868, HS/17/351a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_17_351a/letter-from-william-thomson-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-largs-by-greenock, accessed on 18 March 2025

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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 17 Stark-V miscellaneous
1821-1870 Reference number: HS/17

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