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Faraday3740

From:
William Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 March 1860
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

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Faraday Project
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Faraday3780

From:
William Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 May 1860
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3791

From:
William Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 June 1860
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3887

From:
William Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 November 1860
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3900

From:
William Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 November 1860
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4044

From:
William Thomson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.350a
Summary:

Reads JH's earthquake article and believes the effects of the transferences of matter of which JH speaks must be very small. Discusses the dynamical theory of heat. Will send to JH volume WT is editing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4360

From:
William Thomson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.351b
Summary:

Replies in detail to JH's objection to explaining the retardation of the earth's rotation as due to tidal friction, JH having urged that this effect should be analyzed in terms of momentum rather than of vis viva [kinetic energy], as WT maintained.

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John Herschel Project
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