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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
19 June 1832
Source of text:
BL add MS 37186, f.490
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Reports of further travels, and JH's visit to his aunt Caroline Herschel; interesting stories about his stay in Hanover, including a report on JH's attendance at the Waterloo banquet.
Unable to visit, but has sent two papers on the orbits of double stars. Discusses double stars, noting that four double stars are now known to orbit with periods less than a century long. Wilhelm Olbers is seriously ill.