A note from Amherst College student C. C. [Calvin Chapin] Bayley to Edward Hitchcock describing an experiment using mirrors to reflect rays of light onto a thermometer and a lump of ice and the resulting temperature changes. A diagram of the experiment is included. This note was found within Hitchcock's classroom lecture notes on heat.
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