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Referee's report by Alexander William Williamson, on a paper 'Investigations of the specific heat of solid and liquid bodies' by Hermann Kopp

Reference number: RR/5/134

Date: 03 November 1864

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work by Henri Victor Regnault. Suggests that succinct statements would have been preferable to the paper's 'diffuse and ill arranged remarks'. Suggests reducing the length of the paper.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 1864]

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RR/5/134
Earliest possible date
03 November 1864
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Alexander William Williamson

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Alexander William Williamson, Referee's report by Alexander William Williamson, on a paper 'Investigations of the specific heat of solid and liquid bodies' by Hermann Kopp, 03 November 1864, RR/5/134, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_5_134/referees-report-by-alexander-william-williamson-on-a-paper-investigations-of-the-specific-heat-of-solid-and-liquid-bodies-by-hermann-kopp, accessed on 18 March 2025

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