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Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The inverse square law of gravitation' by Edward Arthur Milne

Reference number: RR/58/106

Date: May 1936

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The general view seems to be against the author but the paper should be published regardless. If it is wrong, 'he can and should bear the blame himself'. If it is right, 'it is most important and if wrong, it is his own funeral'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1936].

Endorsed on verso as received 26 May 1936.

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RR/58/106
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May 1936
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Charles Galton Darwin, Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The inverse square law of gravitation' by Edward Arthur Milne, May 1936, RR/58/106, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_58_106/referees-report-by-charles-galton-darwin-on-a-paper-the-inverse-square-law-of-gravitation-by-edward-arthur-milne, accessed on 12 January 2025

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