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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
Physical description
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

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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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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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