William John Macquorn Rankine to Faraday   13 April 18591

59 St. Vincent Street | Glasgow | 13th April 1859

My Dear Sir,

I feel much obliged by your letter of the 11th, which by a few words has very materially aided my comprehension of your opinion on the “Force” of Gravity2.

I beg leave to send to you a copy of a note3 to my paper on the Conservation of Energy4, which the remarks in your letter have suggested, and which I propose to send to the Philosophical Magazine.

I am | My Dear Sir | Yours Very faithfully | W.J. Macquorn Rankine

Michael Faraday Esq. D.C.L. | &c &c &c

1
William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-1872, ODNB). Regius Professor of Civil Engineering at Glasgow, 1855-1872.
2
See Faraday (1859b), 460-3.
3
Rankine (1859b).
4
Rankine (1859a).

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1859b): Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics, London.

RANKINE, William John Macquorn (1859a): “On the Consevation of Energy”, Phil. Mag., 17: 250-3.

RANKINE, William John Macquorn (1859b): “Note to a Letter “On the Consevation of Energy””, Phil. Mag., 17: 347-8.

Please cite as “Faraday3582,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3582