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Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'The theory of the inertial field' by Alfred North Whitehead

Reference number: RR/26/147

Date: October 1921

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper continues from the author's previous one, in giving reasoned statements for the experimental results. It is important the paper is printed, in order that the theory can be understood or criticised.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 17 October 1921.

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RR/26/147
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October 1921
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Standardised form (type D)
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Stanley Eddington

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Arthur Stanley Eddington, Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'The theory of the inertial field' by Alfred North Whitehead, October 1921, RR/26/147, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_26_147/referees-report-by-arthur-stanley-eddington-on-a-paper-the-theory-of-the-inertial-field-by-alfred-north-whitehead, accessed on 16 March 2025

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