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It's good to see Eunice Newton Foote, who was a distant relative of Sir Issac Newton, getting her due. If you would like to learn more about her, Roland Jackson and I published a detailed history of science paper regarding her discovery and the first analysis of her results in Notes and Records, a history of science journal of the Royal Society of London. You can find the paper here. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsnr.2020.0031

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If you can't access the Note and Records version of the paper, you can find the pre-print here. https://oaks.kent.edu/article/understanding-eunice-footes-1856-experiments-heat-absorption-atmospheric-gases

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What Mica said-thank you so much!

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Another figure from history, like the story you did of Humboldt showed- who has not gotten her just recognition. Thanks Sam!

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