Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Stanley Jevons, dated at Collingwood
Reference number: HS/25/14/16
Date: 1856 or later?
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Copy of a letter. Not aware of any experiments to ascertain the amount of personal error in the estimate of time of a star transit. John Frederick William Herschel then comments on monetary matters including the value and gold equivalence of sovereigns issued by the Mint.
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- HS/25/14/16
- Earliest possible date
- 1856 or later?
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- 2 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Stanley Jevons, dated at Collingwood, 1856 or later?, HS/25/14/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_14_16/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-william-stanley-jevons-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 19 May 2026
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This item is part of:
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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 25 Copies of outgoing letters
1873-1875 Reference number: HS/25 -
Copies of Sir John Herschel's letters to various correspondents with uncertain dates
1875 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/14
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John Frederick William Herschel
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William Stanley Jevons
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Dates: 1807 - 1875
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