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Letter, from Augustus De Morgan to Sir John Herschel, dated at 7 Camden St.

Reference number: HS/6/280

Date: 7 January 1856

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Wishing him well for the new year. Hears John Frederick William Herschel has visited the East India College. Sends a theorem. H. P. Brougham (Baron Brougham and Vaux) amuses himself by finding the laws of central force for curves. Has been finding information on a nephew of Isaac Newton. George Stanhope (6th Earl of Chesterfield) and T. A. W. Parker (9th Earl of Macclesfield) were pupils of Abraham De Moivre.

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HS/6/280
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7 January 1856
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8 pages
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Augustus de Morgan

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Augustus de Morgan, Letter, from Augustus De Morgan to Sir John Herschel, dated at 7 Camden St., 7 January 1856, HS/6/280, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_6_280/letter-from-augustus-de-morgan-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-7-camden-st, accessed on 20 January 2026

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