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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
12 March 1860
Source of text:
RGO 6/678, f.156-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
No summary available.
Offers some possible explanation for what the unnamed observer saw [see GA's 1860-3-1].
Is arguing for the development of a British metrical system based on the length of the polar axis of the earth.