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Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'Observations and experiments on the solar rays that occasion heat; with the application of a remarkable property of these rays to the construction of the solar and oxy-hydrogen gas microscopes' by Joseph Bancroft Reade

Reference number: RR/1/193

Date: 23 December 1836

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1830].

Reference number
RR/1/193
Earliest possible date
23 December 1836
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Charles Wheatstone

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Charles Wheatstone, Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'Observations and experiments on the solar rays that occasion heat; with the application of a remarkable property of these rays to the construction of the solar and oxy-hydrogen gas microscopes' by Joseph Bancroft Reade, 23 December 1836, RR/1/193, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1_193/referees-report-by-charles-wheatstone-on-a-paper-observations-and-experiments-on-the-solar-rays-that-occasion-heat-with-the-application-of-a-remarkable-property-of-these-rays-to-the-construction-of-the-solar-and-oxy-hydrogen-gas-microscopes-by-joseph-bancroft-reade, accessed on 19 January 2025

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