Letter, from Edward Sabine to Sir John Herschel, dated at 12 Park Place
Reference number: HS/15/302
Date: 22 March 1841
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Autograph letter signed by sender. Discusses proposed temperature experiments involving balloons. Prince Edward Island would be good observatory but funds are lacking. [C. F.] Gauss's article translated for Scientific Memoirs.
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- HS/15/302
- Earliest possible date
- 22 March 1841
- Page extent
- 6 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Edward Sabine, Letter, from Edward Sabine to Sir John Herschel, dated at 12 Park Place, 22 March 1841, HS/15/302, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_15_302/letter-from-edward-sabine-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-12-park-place, accessed on 22 April 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 15 Sabine-Selwyn
1820-1870 Reference number: HS/15
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Edward Sabine
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