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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
11 October 1843
Source of text:
RGO 6/701, f.258
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
No summary available.
Recommends buying optics for 7.5-inch telescope from Metz and Mahlers in Munich and having those mounted in London.
Urges doubling number of lunar observations.
Would support improvements, both in number and quality, of lunar observations at the Royal Observatory; current practices produce unacceptably large predictive errors.