Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On the forms of equipotential curves and surfaces and on lines of flow' by W G Adams
Reference number: RR/7/357
Date: 15 June 1875

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Agrees with Maxwell's observations.
Subject: Mathematics
[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1875].
- Reference number
- RR/7/357
- Earliest possible date
- 15 June 1875
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- Letter on paper
- Page extent
- 8 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
- Related authors
- Adams; William Grylls (1836-1915); physicist and astronomer
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William Thomson, Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'On the forms of equipotential curves and surfaces and on lines of flow' by W G Adams, 15 June 1875, RR/7/357, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_357/referees-report-by-william-thomson-lord-kelvin-on-a-paper-on-the-forms-of-equipotential-curves-and-surfaces-and-on-lines-of-flow-by-w-g-adams, accessed on 27 April 2025
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The Bakerian lecture.— On the forms of equipotential curves and surfaces and on lines of flow External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1876
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1875.0001
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Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'On the forms of equipotential curves and surfaces and on lines of flow' by W G Adams
Creator: James Clerk Maxwell Reference number: RR/7/356
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