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Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper 'The flexure of telescope mirror-discs arising from their weight, and its influence upon resolving power' by Harold Spencer Jones

Reference number: RR/20/78

Date: May 1913

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings rather than Philosophical Transactions, as the 'mathematics is not very heavy'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1913].

Endorsed on verso as received 8 May 1913.

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RR/20/78
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May 1913
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2 pages
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Frank Watson Dyson, Referee's report by Frank Watson Dyson, on a paper 'The flexure of telescope mirror-discs arising from their weight, and its influence upon resolving power' by Harold Spencer Jones, May 1913, RR/20/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_20_78/referees-report-by-frank-watson-dyson-on-a-paper-the-flexure-of-telescope-mirror-discs-arising-from-their-weight-and-its-influence-upon-resolving-power-by-harold-spencer-jones, accessed on 12 September 2024

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