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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
21 October 1840
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/A1, pp.157-8
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Faraday Project
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Notes loss of many old friends. Three years seclusion with bad health produced WW's treatise on conic sections, translated to Russian. Sends book on geometrical theorems and two memoirs. Discovered JH stated in 1813 what WW thought was recent discovery about catenary.