A perfect mirror, like every diathermanous body, can itself send out no rays; for if it did (confined in an enclosure of like temperature) it would warm this enclosure... and cool itself more and more.

— Gustav Kirchhoff On the Relation Between the Emmisive and Absorbtive Power (1882)

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