Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Jacques Babinet, dated at Collingwood
Reference number: HS/19/147
Date: 4 February 1862
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Contemporary copy in sender's hand, partly signed by sender. Notes ingenuity of Jacques Babinet's gravimetric balance. Astonished that it did not occur to anyone before. [Letter continues 5 Feb.:] Suggestion for improving torsion thread arrangement.
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- HS/19/147
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- 4 February 1862
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- 6 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Jacques Babinet, dated at Collingwood, 4 February 1862, HS/19/147, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_19_147/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-jacques-babinet-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 15 January 2026
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS -
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 19 Miscellaneous
1821-1870 Reference number: HS/19
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