Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Whewell, dated at Collingwood
Reference number: HS/23/86
Date: 5 May 1850
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Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Thanks for William Whewell's paper on Aristotle. Discusses the philosophical meaning of the term conception. Mentions a visitation to the universities involving the Royal Commission on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge [on which John Frederick William Herschel eventually served].
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- HS/23/86
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- 5 May 1850
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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 William Whewell, dated at Collingwood, 5 May 1850, HS/23/86, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_23_86/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-william-whewell-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 02 December 2024
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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 23 Copies of outgoing letters
1873-1875 Reference number: HS/23
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John Frederick William Herschel
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William Whewell
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