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EXPERIMENTS on radiation have a twofold interest. Accurate measurements of the increase of radiation due to an increase of temperature have of course a great theoretical value, but in addition to this, there is the practical question of a possible measure of temperature by means of the radiation of a body. It is this practical question with special reference to the temperature of the sun which seems chiefly to induce experimenters to study the subject with improved methods. It has led at any rate Mr. Rossetti to furnish a most valuable contribution to the study of radiation.1
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SCHUSTER, A. Recent Experiements on Radiation . Nature 21, 183–184 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021183a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/021183a0