Paper, 'On solar and terrestrial rays causing heat' by William Herschel [Continued]
Reference number: L&P/11/140
Date: 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'
Read 15 May 1800
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- L&P/11/140
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- 1800
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- 86 pages
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- Manuscript
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William Herschel, Paper, 'On solar and terrestrial rays causing heat' by William Herschel [Continued], 1800, L&P/11/140, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_140/paper-on-solar-and-terrestrial-rays-causing-heat-by-william-herschel-continued, accessed on 17 July 2025
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XV. 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 External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1800
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1800.0016
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