From:
William Thomson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 January 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.436
Summary:
Sends JH a copy of the third edition of his Laws of Thought.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Sends JH a copy of the third edition of his Laws of Thought.
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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.
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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