Referee report by James Challis on 'Astronomical Experiment on the Peak of Teneriffe, Carried out under the Sanction of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty' by C. Piazzi Smyth
months on the Peak should not have
enabled the author to point out <s>[text?]
[text?]<\s> errors in the observations,
made cursorily, of former travellers,
and there would seem to be
no objection to his referring to
them for the purpose of correc-
ting them. For instance, having had
his attention directed to the
subject of lateral refraction in
consequence of certain phaenomena
described by Humboldt, he
was justified in shewing, as
he appears satisfactorily to shew,
that the phaenomena in question
were of a local and exceptional
character, and that Humboldt
was mistaken in supposing they
had any relation to lateral
refraction. But there is much
to object to in the <u>tone of
disparagement <\u> with which the
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- Author
- Charles Piazzi Smyth
- Reference
- RR/3/252
- Series
- RR
- Date
- 1856
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Referee report by James Challis on 'Astronomical Experiment on the Peak of Teneriffe, Carried out under the Sanction of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty' by C. Piazzi Smyth, 1856. From The Royal Society, RR/3/252
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