Box 4
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Contains 1 Collection or Record:
[Herapath, John] ? [Herapath, William] [(1790-1868) Physicist and railway journalist; an early advocate of the kinetic theory of gases, discussed in SGB's first paper on history of science and in SGB's book The Kind of Motion We Call Heat. ***THE CORRESPONDENCE APPEARS TO BE FROM WILLIAM HERAPATH, A CHEMIST, NOT John Herapath] -- NOTE: Photocopy of letters by William Herapath, 1836-1838 to Professor Hare of Philadelphia. Letters on gas theory, Hare's deflagrator; electrical generation of insect life. Received from Arnold Thackray. -- See Thackray's 14 July 1970 letter to SGB under Thackray, Arnold. , [1836-1838]
File — Box: 4, Folder: 54.0
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Special Collections and University Archives
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Stephen G. Brush papers
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Correspondence and Papers (By Author)