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Autograph letter signed by sender. Explains to Mary Somerville P. S. Laplace's method of indeterminate coefficients in mathematics. Thanks Mary Somerville for her praise of his book [Prelim. Discourse], which John Frederick William Herschel values more highly than newspaper reviews.

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HS/16/343
Earliest possible date
8 March 1831
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Mary Somerville, dated at Slough, 8 March 1831, HS/16/343, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_16_343/letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-mary-somerville-dated-at-slough, accessed on 08 February 2026

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    Dates: 1807 - 1875

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