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From:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 November 1846
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I062c
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
No summary available.
Essentially agrees with JH's plan for distribution of the star catalogues [see JH's 1846-11-18].
WH's theorems on ellipsoids are new to JH, but JH is unfamiliar with the field, so they may not actually be new. Wishes to master mathematics. Still working on Cape observations. Believes Neptune was almost an English discovery, and would have been well-named Minerva.
Regarding F. W. Bessel's table for the Huygenian satellite. On early chronology.
Could he help with respect to the readings for the satellite of Saturn?
Comments on calculation of star locations, and how to make special observations.