From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[11 April 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.130
Summary:
Asks for the experience of other countries in introducing decimal coinage.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Asks for the experience of other countries in introducing decimal coinage.
Thanks for AD's report on coinage [see JH's 1853-4-11], and for AD's puns.
JH looking for some writings by Isaac Newton while at the Mint, but most of that seems to have vanished.
JH's copy of Apollonius's work on conic sections was given to Francis Baily. [P. L. M. de] Maupertuis's letter to [James] Bradley is 'real prize.' Comment on AD's puns. Finds W. R. Hamilton's Quaternions 'horribly metaphysical.'