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MR. W. S. OKELY accuses me of having criticised his letter “far too hastily,” and writes that he does not compare the diameters of Newton's rings with one another, but their cubes. On referring to his letter in NATURE for Feb. 10, I read as follows :—“Professor Zannotti, of Naples, gives for the diameters of the rings from red to red, the cube-roots of the numbers 1, 5/9, 5/6, 3/4, 2/3, 3/6, 9/16, 1/2. The intervals between these, taken successively, are 9/8, 16/15, 10/9, 9/8, 10/9, 16/15, 9/8.” Your readers can now judge whether my failure to apprehend Mr. Okely's measures was due to my undue haste or his obscurity of expression. When Mr. Okely speaks of my “doubting the accuracy” of Professor Zannotti and M. Biot, he is drawing entirely on his own imagination; what I did doubt was the value of the deductions drawn by Mr. Okely from their figures. I now doubt his power of distinguishing between external facts and those evolved from his own moral consciousness.
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TAYLOR, S. Analogy of Colour and Music. Nature 2, 48 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002048b0
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