Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the radiation of heat from the moon, the law of its absorption by our atmosphere, and of its variation in amount with her phases' by Laurence Parsons, Earl of Rosse
Reference number: RR/7/263
Date: 29 May 1873
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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is 'a most valuable paper, almost wholly exhaustive of its subject'.
Subject: Astronomy
[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1873].
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- RR/7/263
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- 29 May 1873
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- 2 pages
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George Biddell Airy, Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the radiation of heat from the moon, the law of its absorption by our atmosphere, and of its variation in amount with her phases' by Laurence Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 29 May 1873, RR/7/263, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_263/referees-report-by-george-biddell-airy-on-a-paper-on-the-radiation-of-heat-from-the-moon-the-law-of-its-absorption-by-our-atmosphere-and-of-its-variation-in-amount-with-her-phases-by-laurence-parsons-earl-of-rosse, accessed on 08 December 2025
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XVI. The Bakerian Lecture.— On the radiation of heat from the moon, the law of its absorption by our atmosphere, and of its variation in amount with her phases External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1873
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1873.0017
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Referee's report by James Prescott Joule, on a paper 'On the radiation of heat from the moon, the law of its absorption by our atmosphere, and of its variation in amount with her phases' by Laurence Parsons, Earl of Rosse
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