Letter, from Heinrich Christian Schumacher to Sir John Herschel, dated at Altona

Reference number: HS/15/403

Date: 26 June 1849

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Relays debate about the use of names of Roman gods for 'planets.' [Annibale] de Gasparis proposes to name his discovery in Italian, 'Igia,' rather than the Roman Hygia [Hygeia]. Which version will John Frederick William

Reference number: HS/15/403
Earliest possible date: 26 June 1849
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Letter, from Heinrich Christian Schumacher to Sir John Herschel, dated at Altona, 26 June 1849, HS/15/403, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_15_403/letter-from-heinrich-christian-schumacher-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-altona, accessed on 21 May 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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