From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.233 (C: RGO 6.251.167)
Summary:
Regarding P. S. Laplace's barometric measurements. Michael Faraday.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Regarding P. S. Laplace's barometric measurements. Michael Faraday.
Expresses unease about P. S. Laplace's formulation of the barometric determination of height; in a postscript comments that Michael Faraday's lecture on conservation of force is a 'strange production.'