From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.217
Summary:
Speculates on gravitational effect of sun and moon on earth's atmosphere.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Speculates on gravitational effect of sun and moon on earth's atmosphere.
Book he intended to write has had to be postponed as he has been asked to prepare a second edition of his Weather Book. Sends a proof of the revision of the 18th chapter.
Thanks for his opinion; it will save him from exposure, but it is too late to get the book altered. Comments on some parts of JH's book on meteorology. The atmosphere appears to be smaller in extent than John Dalton conceived.
Comments on RF's ideas on the gravitational effect of the sun and moon on the earth's atmosphere.