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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Bartholomew Price, dated at Collingwood

Reference number: HS/23/358

Date: 21 December 1861

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Copy of a letter. Thanks for sending vol. 4 of BP's Infinitesimal Calculus and for earlier sending vols. 1 and 2. Praises parts of vol. 4. Will another volume be forthcoming?

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HS/23/358
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21 December 1861
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1 page
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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 Bartholomew Price, dated at Collingwood, 21 December 1861, HS/23/358, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_23_358/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-bartholomew-price-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 03 December 2024

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