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Paper, 'On solar and terrestrial rays causing heat' by William Herschel [Continued]

Reference number: L&P/11/140

Date: 1800

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Contains plate.

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

Reference number
L&P/11/140
Earliest possible date
1800
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
86 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Herschel

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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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