Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Edward Sabine
Reference number: HS/20/202
Date: 20 March 1825
Description
Copy of a letter. Comments on Edward Sabine's measurement [in his Account of Experiments to Determine the Figure of the Earth] indicating 'the increase of the fraction expressing the earth's compression.' Predicts that Edward Sabine's result will cause a 'sensation,' but does not commit himself to it.
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- HS/20/202
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- 20 March 1825
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Edward Sabine, 20 March 1825, HS/20/202, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_20_202/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-edward-sabine, accessed on 25 April 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 20 Copies of outgoing letters
1873-1875 Reference number: HS/20
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Edward Sabine
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Herschel Letters
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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