Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Mary Somerville

Reference number: HS/16/382

Date: 1830-1?

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Admires her manuscript [Mechanism of the Heavens]. Wishes [P. S.] Laplace would have lived to see it. Notes a problem with the principle of virtual velocity.

Reference number: HS/16/382
Earliest possible date: 1830-1?
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: 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, 1830-1?, HS/16/382, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_16_382/letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-mary-somerville, accessed on 25 March 2025

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This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John Herschel, leading figure of Victorian science.

Dates: 1807 - 1875

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