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PERMIT me to make a little correction to my letter on page 891 (June 26) about the law of radiation. It is usual to quote Rayleigh's law in the form there given, namely, 8πRTλ-4; the 8πR part is, however, due not to Rayleigh but to Dr. Jeans (see Phil. Mag. for July 1905). In Rayleigh's 1900 paper he left the constant undetermined. Afterwards, in NATURE for May 18, 1905, he concluded, from simple gas-theory, that the constant would be 64πR; but Jeans speedily pointed out a source of error, and made the constant 8πR, a correction which Rayleigh at once accepted (see his “Collected Works”, vol. 5, p. 253; also p. 248).
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LODGE, O. Supplementary Note on Radiation. Nature 118, 81 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118081b0
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