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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Augustus De Morgan, dated at Collingwood

Reference number: HS/23/190

Date: 1857-2

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Copy of a letter. Offers Augustus De Morgan a puzzle and John Frederick William Herschel's solution to Augustus De Morgan's problem about a body revolving in the evolute of an ellipse. On sending Francis Baily's correspondence to Greenwich.

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HS/23/190
Earliest possible date
1857-2
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Augustus De Morgan, dated at Collingwood, 1857-2, HS/23/190, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_23_190/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-augustus-de-morgan-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 07 December 2024

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