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FOOTE, Eunice Newton (1819 – 1888)

FOOTE, Eunice Newton (1819 – 1888)

1819 – 1888

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Image source A. Bockes, A Pond (creators of the text) · Passport Applications , National Archives and Records Administration, Vol. 233 July 14-24, 1862. (NARA Series M1372, Roll 108) · Public domain

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1856 CE

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Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun's rays.

FOOTE, Eunice Newton (1819 – 1888)
FOOTE, Eunice Newton (1819 – 1888)

Foote was the first scientist known to have experimented on the warming effect of sunlight on different gases. In this two-page paper she theorized that changing the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere woul…