Incomplete copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Thomas Maclear, dated at Feldhausen
Reference number: HS/21/217
Date: 1 February 1837
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Copy of a letter, incomplete. Comments on disagreements in stellar observations and on sun spot activity; and requests observations of a specific star.
- Reference number
- HS/21/217
- Earliest possible date
- 1 February 1837
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Incomplete copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Thomas Maclear, dated at Feldhausen, 1 February 1837, HS/21/217, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_21_217/incomplete-copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-thomas-maclear-dated-at-feldhausen, accessed on 19 July 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 21 Copies of outgoing letters
1873-1875 Reference number: HS/21
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Thomas Maclear
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