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Letter, from Nathaniel Bowditch [Sr.] to Sir John Herschel, dated at Boston (Mass.)

Reference number: HS/4/199

Date: 13 November 1829

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Sending the first volume of his translation of P. S. Laplace's Mecanique celeste.

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HS/4/199
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13 November 1829
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Nathaniel Bowditch

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Nathaniel Bowditch, Letter, from Nathaniel Bowditch [Sr.] to Sir John Herschel, dated at Boston (Mass.), 13 November 1829, HS/4/199, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_4_199/letter-from-nathaniel-bowditch-sr-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-boston-mass, accessed on 10 November 2025

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