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From:
Michael and Sarah Faraday
To:
George and Emily Buchanan
Date:
4 July 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/44
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Thanks for his letter and amusing pamphlet on atoms. Comments on their use of certain terms. Does not think their views differ radically. Thinks heat is a form of movement.
Sends WS William Herschel's chromatic observations of Beta Cygni. Completing 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' Works on translating Book IX of Iliad; fears he will not complete translation of Iliad.
Corrects typographical errors in JH's recent letters [1864-6-18 & 1864-7-1] to the Times.