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It was 1704 when men of church were still active on the forefront of science. A letter was sent to the English clergymen W. Derham (1657–1735), Rector of Upminster in Essex, claiming that “sound is seldom heard at Rome at such distances as in England and northern climates.” In [1708] Derham, writing in Latin, published a long paper that clearly speaks of the difficulty posed by sound and the “abstruse phenomena” associated with it.
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“Nota il moto del vello dell’acqua il quale fa a uso de’ i capelli, che hanno due moti, dei quali l’uno attende al peso del vello, l’altro al liniamento delle sue volte; così l’acqua ha le sue volte revertiginose, delle quali una parte attende a l’impeto del corso principale, l’altra attende al moto incidente e refresso.” (Cod. Windsor).
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The relation 1 atm= \(1.013\cdot 10^3\) mb makes the millibar slightly less than one-thousandth of a standard atmosphere.
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For scatter through other than \(180\,^{\circ }\) formulas for electromagnetic and acoustic scatter are slightly different (Derr, Little [1969]).
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Prestini, E. (2016). Our Friendly Atmosphere: Methods of Remote Sensing and Climate. In: The Evolution of Applied Harmonic Analysis. Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7989-6_10
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