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Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'Lorentz's equation' by R A Sampson

Reference number: RR/44/62

Date: March 1931

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication. The paper is obscure 'there seems to be no statement at the beginning or end as to what he claims to establish'. It is impossible to follow the paper.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 16 March 1931.

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RR/44/62
Earliest possible date
March 1931
Physical description
Standardised form (type D) and report on paper
Page extent
4 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 'Lorentz's equation' by R A Sampson, March 1931, RR/44/62, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_44_62/referees-report-by-arthur-stanley-eddington-on-a-paper-lorentzs-equation-by-r-a-sampson, accessed on 02 December 2024

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