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

Reference number: RR/44/63

Date: September 1931

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

The paper has been edited since his last report and could perhaps now be published as a 'considered expression of the view of an opponent of relativity (at least in Einstein's form)'.He still doesn't understand part five.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 22 September 1931.

Reference number
RR/44/63
Earliest possible date
September 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, Second referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'Lorentz's equation' by R A Sampson, September 1931, RR/44/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_44_63/second-referees-report-by-arthur-stanley-eddington-on-a-paper-lorentzs-equation-by-r-a-sampson, accessed on 30 November 2023

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