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From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 December 1844
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.31
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Faraday Project
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When on board the Excellent at Portsmouth he was deafened by the firing of a gun and has since suffered from 'singing' in his ear. Can JH recommend a relief? His daughter would like an engraving of JH.
Queries regarding the statement by William Herschel on the time taken for the light from the stars to reach the earth. Have there been any new developments in this theory?