Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Carl Friedrich Gauss, dated at Collingwood
Reference number: HS/25/6/12
Date: 4 September 1842
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Copy letter in John Herschel's hand. The instructions for making magnetic and meteorological observations are to be revised. John Frederick William Herschel asks Carl Friedrich Gauss's advice about this.
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- HS/25/6/12
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- 4 September 1842
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- 3 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Carl Friedrich Gauss, dated at Collingwood, 4 September 1842, HS/25/6/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_6_12/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-carl-friedrich-gauss-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 14 July 2025
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This item is part of:
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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 25 Copies of outgoing letters
1873-1875 Reference number: HS/25 -
Copy book of Sir John Herschel's outgoing correspondence, vol. 6, from 3 March 1840 to 27 September 1846
1873 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel , John Herschel Reference number: HS/25/6
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Karl Friedrich Gauss
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