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Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge

Title

Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge

Creator

Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940

Date

1893

Identifier

GFF 2/37

Description

Item of correspondence from GFF letters

Source

Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 8 January 1993. Lodge discusses scientific ideas regarding gravitation and friction. 2pp.

Transcription:
"M d Φ
Of course I'm coming on the 21st since you have laid commands upon me. Very enterprising of you. How's Pioneer getting on? Haven't seen a review of it yet. Hope it will sell. You have read page 208.
Better than publishing your letter [o?] for other folk to benefit and would be for you to work these thing out and publish most elaborately.
No I don't think that gravitation is known by [u?] nearer the u2/V2 and in a resisting medium deviation and friction would [n?] one another to a very high order (as far as direction was concerned) and as regards speed, deviational force would defend a 1n power of velocity; and by Ohm's Law etherised friction is probably also 1n power of velocity (distance matters nothing in either case). Very likely also friction would depend on moving mass [?]; and if its compensation ever for any one body means compensation always for all, expect for the expected thing, you mention, about target and radius vector not being perpendicular to each other. I [r?] however your ingenious Doppler mode of [c?] counteracting even this.
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Contributor

RDS Library & Archives

Rights

Copyright RDS Library & Archives. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the RDS Library & Archives.

Relation

RDS Science Archive

Format

Manuscript

Language

English

Type

Text

Coverage

1870-1901

Collection

George Francis Fitzgerald Letters

Citation

Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940, “Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge,” RDS Digital Archive, accessed July 16, 2025, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/1297.

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