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Paper, 'Observations on the colar and terrestrial rays that occasion heat' by William Herschel

Reference number: L&P/11/131

Date: 26 April 1800

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments on the solar, and on the terrestrial rays that occasion heat; with a comparative view of the laws to which light and heat, or rather the rays which occasion them, are subject, in order to determine whether they are the same, or different'

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L&P/11/131
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26 April 1800
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32 pages
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William Herschel

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William Herschel, Paper, 'Observations on the colar and terrestrial rays that occasion heat' by William Herschel, 26 April 1800, L&P/11/131, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_131/paper-observations-on-the-colar-and-terrestrial-rays-that-occasion-heat-by-william-herschel, accessed on 07 December 2024

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