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Letter from Charles William Siemens, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On uniform rotation' by Charles William Siemens

Reference number: RR/6/276

Date: 17 October 1866

Description

Apologises for not returning corrected manuscript sooner. Explains how the calculation, which apparently required correction, agrees with the experimental results, but the illustration may have complicated its interpretation.

Subject: Mathematics, Applied Sciences

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Reference number
RR/6/276
Earliest possible date
17 October 1866
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter from Charles William Siemens, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On uniform rotation' by Charles William Siemens, 17 October 1866, RR/6/276, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_6_276/letter-from-charles-william-siemens-to-george-gabriel-stokes-regarding-a-paper-on-uniform-rotation-by-charles-william-siemens, accessed on 12 December 2024

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