Spencer Heath's
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Spencer Heath Archive
Item 1851
Pencil notes on Holland-America Line note paper inserted between pages 188-189 of A.S. Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (Cambridge University Press, 1932). Dated the earliest of any notes on physical science yet found, these may have been made on the trans-Atlantic crossing on which Heath read and studied Eddington for the first time. This reading of Eddington was a landmark experience for Heath which he referred to on more than one occasion in conversation with Spencer MacCallum.
December 19, 1931.
Centimeter – Unit of (motion) space
Second – “ change
Gramme – “ mass
Second – The unit of time or change
Centimeters per second – Unit of motion
Grammes-Centimeters – Unit of power
Grammes-Centimeters per second – Unit of Energy
Rate of
Grammes-Centimeters per second for any number of seconds – a quantity of energy
Metadata
| Title | Subject - 1851 |
| Collection Name | Spencer Heath Archive |
| Series | Subject |
| Box number | 12:1711-1879 |
| Document number | 1851 |
| Date / Year | 1931-12-19 |
| Authors / Creators / Correspondents | |
| Description | Pencil notes on Holland-America Line note paper inserted between pages 188-189 of A.S. Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (Cambridge University Press, 1932). Dated the earliest of any notes on physical science yet found, these may have been made on the trans-Atlantic crossing on which Heath read and studied Eddington for the first time. This reading of Eddington was a landmark experience for Heath which he referred to on more than one occasion in conversation with Spencer MacCallum. |
| Keywords | Physics Autobiography Eddington |