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Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'On the light radiated by heated bodies' by Balfour Stewart

Reference number: RR/4/261

Date: 17 March 1860

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as it is 'only a supplement to two papers by the same author previously printed in those of the Royal Society of Edinburgh'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1859].

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RR/4/261
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17 March 1860
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Wheatstone

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Charles Wheatstone, Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'On the light radiated by heated bodies' by Balfour Stewart, 17 March 1860, RR/4/261, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_4_261/referees-report-by-charles-wheatstone-on-a-paper-on-the-light-radiated-by-heated-bodies-by-balfour-stewart, accessed on 18 May 2025

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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