Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to James David Forbes, dated at Collingwood
Reference number: HS/25/6/15
Date: 15 November 1842
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Contemporary copy in sender's hand, signed by sender. Received James Forbes's paper on 'thermographic process.' Believes that thermic rays were responsible for experimental results of James Forbes, J. W. Draper, and Ludwig Moser. John Frederick William Herschel's theory of and experiments with thermic rays, which are different from 'calorific' and visible rays, in solar spectrum.
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- HS/25/6/15
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- 15 November 1842
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- 4 pages
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to James David Forbes, dated at Collingwood, 15 November 1842, HS/25/6/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_6_15/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-james-david-forbes-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 25 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 25 Copies of outgoing letters
1873-1875 Reference number: HS/25 -
Copy book of Sir John Herschel's outgoing correspondence, vol. 6, from 3 March 1840 to 27 September 1846
1873 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel , John Herschel Reference number: HS/25/6
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