From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[10 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.76
Summary:
Comments about translating Homer and about other translations appearing.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Comments about translating Homer and about other translations appearing.
Received Indian survey chart. JH's son John wrote of higher-order ellipsoidal triangles with sides based on geodesical triangles. JH objects that these violate principle of diagonal bracing. Proposes different triangles and names sites in India as apexes. Received G. B. Airy's paper on reduction.