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Gravitation and Temperature

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DR. P. E. SHAW'S striking experimental result (Phil. Trans., 1916) as to a variation of gravitational attraction with temperature of the large mass, and that of Poynting and Phillips as to no variation in attraction with temperature of the small mass, may seem reconciled satisfactorily by the formula put forward by the latter collaborators, and quoted by Dr. Shaw in NATURE (July 13), viz.:”

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BARTON, E. Gravitation and Temperature. Nature 97, 461–462 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097461b0

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