TLS, 1926 April 13 : Landing, NJ, to Mr. Hill.

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TLS, 1926 April 13 : Landing, NJ, to Mr. Hill.

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Acknowledges Mr. Hill's letter and states "there is quite a lot of high-falutinism in Prof. Millikan's pronouncements ... There are certain things which we know that are eternal truths." He refers to his article in the 1889 supplement of Scientific American which "embodied ... the first factual pronouncement on the plilosophy of relativity, and it broadly anticipated Einstein ..."

2 p. ; #c 28 x 21.5 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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