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Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'On the definition of distance in curved space, and the displacement of the spectral lines of distant sources' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker

Reference number: RR/44/129

Date: July 1931

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1931].

Endorsed on verso as received 4 July 1931.

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RR/44/129
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July 1931
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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 'On the definition of distance in curved space, and the displacement of the spectral lines of distant sources' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, July 1931, RR/44/129, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_44_129/referees-report-by-arthur-stanley-eddington-on-a-paper-on-the-definition-of-distance-in-curved-space-and-the-displacement-of-the-spectral-lines-of-distant-sources-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker, accessed on 15 June 2025

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