Note 56 — Chapter VI
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By far the most complete set of experiments on the radiation of heat from the surface at night, which have been published since Dr. Wells’s memoir On Dew, are those of Mr. Glaisher, of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. Instruments of the most perfect kind were employed, and the observations made with sedulous care. The results will be found in a memoir On the Amount of the Radiation of Heat, at night, from the Earth, and from various bodies placed on or near the Surface of the Earth, by James Glaisher, Esq., Philosophical Trans. for 1847, part 2.