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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Showing 7 letters from 1862–1867

4 letters from Robert Harley; 3 letters from John Frederick William Herschel

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Is grateful to John Frederick William Herschel for calling attention to his paper on analysis. Has forwarded his letter to George Boole. Hopes he can quote it in his paper for the Manchester Philosophical Society. Sends a copy of his memoir from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

Reference number: HS/9/238

Copy of a letter. About the solution of algebraic equations and John Frederick William Herschel's previous work on this topic.

Reference number: HS/23/365
1866

Sir John Herschel publishes his translation of Homer’s Iliad

1866

Autograph letter signed by sender. Is writing an article on the life and work of George Boole and would like John Frederick William Herschel's advice on one of D. F. Gregory's references.

Reference number: HS/9/239

Autograph letter signed by sender. Has not had time to finish the George Boole paper, but the biographical part is in print. Will send him the complete article when it is finished.

Reference number: HS/9/240

Copy of a letter. Comments on analytic symbolism in mathematics.

Reference number: HS/24/149

Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Expresses thanks for Robert Harley, in a paper on George Boole in the British Quarterly Review, giving John Frederick William Herschel credit for having published 'my introduction of the mode of separation of the symbol of differentiation from the differentiated function and executing on it operations analogous to those of common algebra.'

Reference number: HS/24/158
1867

Sir John Herschel publishes Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects

1867

Autograph letter signed by sender. Intends applying for the chair of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork and would be grateful for a testimonial from John Frederick William Herschel.

Reference number: HS/9/241