Newton's law of cooling from Stefan's law?

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I read it in my book that Newton's law of cooling can be derived from Stefan's law. Is it possible, and if so, how?
 
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I don't think so. Take a look at this:

http://physics.unipune.ernet.in/~phyed/23.1/23.1_teaching.pdf"

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