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Letter from George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The rotation of an elastic spheroid' by Sydney Samuel Hough to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/13/49

Date: 11 December 1895

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He is communicating the paper to the Royal Society. The author has discovered that Newcomb's result on a previous subject requires modifications. The subject is of great astronomical interest and deserves to be published.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1896].

Reference number
RR/13/49
Earliest possible date
11 December 1895
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter from George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'The rotation of an elastic spheroid' by Sydney Samuel Hough to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 11 December 1895, RR/13/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_49/letter-from-george-howard-darwin-on-a-paper-the-rotation-of-an-elastic-spheroid-by-sydney-samuel-hough-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 23 January 2025

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