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Paper, 'On the amount of the radiation of heat, at night, from the earth, and from various bodies placed on or near the surface of the earth' by James Glaisher

Reference number: PT/32/9

Date: 1847

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Includes several fold-out tables of observations. Further observations accompanying this paper found at PT/33/1.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the amount of the radiation of heat, at night, from the earth, and from various bodies placed on or near the surface of the earth'.

Communicated by G B [George Biddell] Airy. Received by the Royal Society on 14 January 1847. Read 4 February 1847.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851.

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PT/32/9
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1847
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144 pages
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James Glaisher

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James Glaisher, Paper, 'On the amount of the radiation of heat, at night, from the earth, and from various bodies placed on or near the surface of the earth' by James Glaisher, 1847, PT/32/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_32_9/paper-on-the-amount-of-the-radiation-of-heat-at-night-from-the-earth-and-from-various-bodies-placed-on-or-near-the-surface-of-the-earth-by-james-glaisher, accessed on 10 March 2026

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