NAHSTE: Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll

Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll
Item Summary
Reference Code	GB 0237 Sir Charles Lyell Gen. 109 Lyell 1/613-614
Date(s)	24 April 1866
Extent and medium of the unit of description	1 letter
Name of creator	Croll \| James \| 1821-1890 \| physical geologist and Keeper of Maps and Correspondence of the Geological Survey of Scotland
Scope and Content
Scope and Content	Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll concerning the temperature of space in relation to the position of the earth and the sun and discussing different methods of calculating the rate at which the temperature decreases and increases depending on the amount of heat that is received from the sun, 24 April 1866.
Index
Subjects	Sun Earth Temperature in Space
People	Croll \| James \| 1821-1890 \| physical geologist and Keeper of Maps and Correspondence of the Geological Survey of Scotland Lyell \| Sir \| Charles \| 1797-1875 \| geologist Herschel \| Sir \| John Frederick William \| 1792-1871 \| astronomer
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Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll