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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Croll
Date:
[6 February 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.7; draft: RS:HS 5.300 & C: 24.87-8
Summary:

In response to comments in a paper by JC, JH writes to establish his priority with respect to the significance of the revolution of the apsides of the earth's orbit and the eccentricity of the earth's orbit in affecting temperatures on the earth. JH had spelled this out in an 1830 paper for the Transactions of the Geological Society, and repeated it in his Outlines Astr.

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