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Letter, from Richard Sheepshanks to Sir John Herschel, dated at 30 Woburn Place

Reference number: HS/16/2

Date: 7 January 1833

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Asks John Frederick William Herschel to review a publication Richard Sheepshanks was preparing. Comments on James South's claim concerning supposed defects in the telescope made for him by Edward Troughton. Suggests John Frederick William Herschel intercede with the government to get it to support G. B. Airy's reduction of the Greenwich planetary observations.

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HS/16/2
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7 January 1833
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4 pages
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Richard Sheepshanks, Letter, from Richard Sheepshanks to Sir John Herschel, dated at 30 Woburn Place, 7 January 1833, HS/16/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_16_2/letter-from-richard-sheepshanks-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-30-woburn-place, accessed on 10 March 2026

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