Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'An account of experiments on the change of the elastic force of a constant volume of atmospheric air, between 32° F. and 212° F., and also on the temperature of the melting-point of mercury' by Balfour Stewart
Reference number: RR/5/258
Date: 03 July 1863
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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work by Henri Victor Regnault and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Discusses minor errors that appear in the observations, and suggests further experiments. Suggests edits, omissions and changes to the manuscript and illustrations.
Subject: Physics and Chemistry
[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1863]
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- RR/5/258
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- 03 July 1863
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- 8 pages
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William Hallowes Miller, Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'An account of experiments on the change of the elastic force of a constant volume of atmospheric air, between 32° F. and 212° F., and also on the temperature of the melting-point of mercury' by Balfour Stewart, 03 July 1863, RR/5/258, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_5_258/referees-report-by-william-hallowes-miller-on-a-paper-an-account-of-experiments-on-the-change-of-the-elastic-force-of-a-constant-volume-of-atmospheric-air-between-32-f-and-212-f-and-also-on-the-temperature-of-the-melting-point-of-mercury-by-balfour-stewart, accessed on 05 November 2024
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