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IT is stated in some text-books on heat that Stefan discovered the fourth power of the temperature law of radiation in this wise. He found, in one of John Tyndall's published researches, the statement that the radiation from a piece of heated platinum foil was 11·9 times as great when the foil was white-hot as when it was red-hot. Estimating these centigrade temperatures as 1,200° and 525°, and remarking that Nature worked in simple ways, he put
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SATTERLY, J. Stefan's Radiation Law. Nature 157, 737 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157737c0
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