The contrast with his American contemporary, William Ferrel, who discovered Buys-Ballot's law slightly earlier, is striking.
Ferrel improved upon Hadley's theory by recognizing an until then overlooked mechanism.
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Hadley's erroneous reasoning had been in terms of a tendency to conserve linear momentum, as air mass travels from north to south or from south to north.
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