Letter, from Carl Friedrich Gauss to Sir John Herschel, dated at Göttingen

Reference number: HS/8/73

Date: 10 November 1821

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Has been absent the whole summer and fears that his letter acknowledging his election to the Astronomical Society may have gone astray. Is grateful for the honor. Sends a paper of his own on a new method of making observations with the heliotrope. Comments on the usefulness of this instrument.

Reference number: HS/8/73
Earliest possible date: 10 November 1821
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Karl Friedrich Gauss, Letter, from Carl Friedrich Gauss to Sir John Herschel, dated at Göttingen, 10 November 1821, HS/8/73, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_8_73/letter-from-carl-friedrich-gauss-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-göttingen, accessed on 13 June 2026

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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 8 Galbraith-J Grahame
1810-1870 Reference number: HS/8

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Dates: 1807 - 1875

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