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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The theoretical side has been covered extensively by other researchers, but the author has made a considerable advance on the practical side.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1913]

Endorsed on verso as received 3 May 1912.

Reference number
RR/19/113
Earliest possible date
May 1912
Physical description
Standardised form (type A)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Edmund Taylor Whittaker

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'A new treatment of optical aberrations' by Ralph Allen Sampson, May 1912, RR/19/113, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_113/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-a-new-treatment-of-optical-aberrations-by-ralph-allen-sampson, accessed on 12 December 2024

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