From:
Anne Elise Knipping
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1847-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.59
Summary:
Comments on the reports of the birthday celebrations for JH's aunt Caroline.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Comments on the reports of the birthday celebrations for JH's aunt Caroline.
Presents 'tables for facilitating the approximate prediction of occultation and eclipses for any particular place,' so that seamen without specialized backgrounds in mathematics can observe and improve hydrography.
Sends some results concerning undisturbed parabolic motion. Laments the Irish famine.