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Add. MS a/200/29
Titre
Letter from George Airy
Date(s)
- 14 Apr. 1840 (Production)
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Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
4 pp.
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Nom du producteur
Histoire archivistique
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Portée et contenu
Royal Observatory Greenwich - Gives his comments regarding WW's paper on the history of optics and light in general [for his The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon their History?]: 'There is one fault in the general arrangement, which I do not see how to remove - namely, that the phenomena and explanations of fringes, gratings, &c, did precede in history and do precede in mental comprehension those relating to dipolarisation. But the things are very much interlaced all through'.