Paper, 'The thermal radiation from Sun spots. Preliminary notes of observations made at Daramona, Streete, Co. Westmeath [Ireland], 1893' by William Edward Wilson
Reference number: PP/23/16
Date: 1893-1894
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Wilson writes: 'These observations were made by means of a large heliostat, lent by the Royal Society, and a Boys’s radio-micrometer. The heliostat consists of a plane silver-on-glass mirror of 15 in. aperture. It is mounted equatorially, and driven by a clock.'
Annotations in pencil and ink.
Subject: Meteorology / Astronomy
Received 4 January 1894. Read 15 March 1894. Communicated by George Johnstone Stoney.
A version of this paper was published in volume 55 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The thermal radiation from Sun spots. Preliminary notes of observations made at Daramona, Streete, Co. Westmeath, 1893'.
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- PP/23/16
- Earliest possible date
- 1893-1894
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 11 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Edward Wilson, Paper, 'The thermal radiation from Sun spots. Preliminary notes of observations made at Daramona, Streete, Co. Westmeath [Ireland], 1893' by William Edward Wilson, 1893-1894, PP/23/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_23_16/paper-the-thermal-radiation-from-sun-spots-preliminary-notes-of-observations-made-at-daramona-streete-co-westmeath-ireland-1893-by-william-edward-wilson, accessed on 15 May 2025
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I. The thermal radiation from Sun spots. Preliminary notes of observations made at Daramona, Streete, Co. Westmeath, 1893 External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1894
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1894.0038
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Dates: 1882 - 1894
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