Letter, from Robert Hunt to Sir John Herschel, dated at Falmouth
Reference number: HS/10/97
Date: 24 December 1842
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Autograph letter signed by sender. Sends a few samples of plates made by the cyanotype process; they are poor because the sun has not been very strong of late. Comments on this process and wishes John Frederick William Herschel would make a few experiments with his more perfect apparatus. Inclined to agree with him about the mechanism of the eye.
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- HS/10/97
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- 24 December 1842
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- 3 pages
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- Manuscript
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Robert Hunt, Letter, from Robert Hunt to Sir John Herschel, dated at Falmouth, 24 December 1842, HS/10/97, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_10_97/letter-from-robert-hunt-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-falmouth, accessed on 25 March 2025
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS -
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 10 Howard-J miscellaneous
1816-1871 Reference number: HS/10
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Robert Hunt
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John Frederick William Herschel
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