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Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'Ultimate measurements of space and time' by H T Flint

Reference number: RR/59/74

Date: August 1936

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The mathematics appears to be sound. Some workers might find the paper appealing, but fainds the main principle 'wrong-headed'. Suggests 'an author of some standing cannot be expected to acquiesce in the suppression of his idea without a clear criticism'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 24 August 1936.

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RR/59/74
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August 1936
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2 pages
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Arthur Stanley Eddington

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Arthur Stanley Eddington, Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'Ultimate measurements of space and time' by H T Flint, August 1936, RR/59/74, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_59_74/referees-report-by-arthur-stanley-eddington-on-a-paper-ultimate-measurements-of-space-and-time-by-h-t-flint, accessed on 03 December 2024

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