User talk:Emma Ephemera

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Not Stephen Gray- thanks
This source said the picture corresponded to Stephen Gray (scientist), but obviously your source discredits this. Thanks for identifying the error. I will correct it in Commons where the image came from.-J JMesserly (talk) 03:09, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I was just replying to you at this very moment! Thanks for doing the Commons bit, as I really can't get my head around the process. Ephemera (talk) 03:44, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Sharp eyes. How did you know?  Were you familiar with Desaguliers or Gray or both? -J JMesserly (talk) 03:49, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I noticed the thermometer on the desk was a model invented by Celsius in 1742, six years after Gray's death, which made me suspicious. Of course, I reasoned it could have been a late Newtonian equibaric model, but then that would...kidding, I was browsing the winners of the Copley Medal, and noticed they had the same portrait. Ephemera (talk) 04:06, 5 January 2009 (UTC)