One wonders what Melloni's detector was. Very sensitive was Edison's tasimeter,
which from what I've read could detect radiation from individual stars at the
prime focus of a telescope.
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On Monday, January 17th, 2022 at 2:47 PM, H LV wrote:
> The first person
The first person credited with detecting heat from moonlight was
Macedonio Melloni in 1846. Below is a brief description of the
experiment from "Infrared metaphysics: the elusive ontology of
radiation. Part 1" by Hasok Chang , Sabina Leonelli.
(Btw, I have read elsewhere that the experiment was
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