Letter, from Johann Franz Encke to Sir John Herschel, dated at Berlin

Reference number: HS/7/89

Date: 8 September 1833

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Has been informed that John Frederick William Herschel will be going to the Cape. Comments on John Frederick William Herschel's information on double stars, and on a passage in one of his memoirs. Regarding John Frederick William Herschel's Prelim Discourse. Work of Fearon Fallows and Thomas Henderson at the Cape.

Reference number: HS/7/89
Earliest possible date: 8 September 1833
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Johann Franz Encke, Letter, from Johann Franz Encke to Sir John Herschel, dated at Berlin, 8 September 1833, HS/7/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_7_89/letter-from-johann-franz-encke-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-berlin, accessed on 10 November 2025

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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel , Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 7 Eardley Wilmot-F
1820-1871 Reference number: HS/7

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