Mayer and De Saussure

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Jan 1872

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Nature, Volume 5, Issue 114, pp. 181-182 (1872).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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IN Prof. Tyndall's account of the labours of Mayer, a paragraph is devoted to the bearing of his principles upon the phenomena of vegetable life. It suggests two points of difficulty to me :-1. It is said that ``Mayer's utterances are far from being anticipated by vague statements regarding the c `stimulus' of light, or regarding coal as `bottled sunlight.''' Nevertheless the paragraph reads almost like a paraphrase of the following passage from Sir John Herschel's ``Outlines of Astronomy'' (1833), p. 211 :-

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