Should not imagine that he is declining when a hot day comes along. Regarding Thomas Harriot and his theological views.
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Should not imagine that he is declining when a hot day comes along. Regarding Thomas Harriot and his theological views.
His family are now by the sea in Wales. Comments on translations.
Returns JH's manuscript on algebra. Wishes parts of it had been published. Wrote a treatise on mechanics, which he submitted to the University when applying for his present position. Regarding J. L. F. Bertrand and their papers on series.
Does not use tables for rough and ready work, but backs his tables against the slide rule. Thanks for the dialogue ['On Atoms']. Regarding blind atoms.
Is sorry to hear that the JHs have fever in the house. Hopes it will soon move away. Fever has been prevalent in Kent this year. Believes London is more healthy. Sends a problem.
Hopes all is well. Has not seen the point about James Challis to which JH refers, but Challis has produced strange theorems.
Sends an extract from J. J. Lalande's article on planets from the Encyclopédie méthodique. Sends two of his own theorems.
Like Professor Olearius Schneiderhausen, AD has had only one coat in two years. JH will go on for many more years. Sends one of his theorems.
Regarding translations of Walter Mapes regarding the origin of the word theodolite.
Wife and family are on holiday at Portmadoc. Obtains his rhymes from Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England. Relates a tale of how a priest tricked a farmer in medieval times.
Regarding a suitable length for the proposed metric system. Hopes the metrical people will continue to agitate.
Hopes all are well. Comments on Charles Babbage's latest book. Intends telling the truth about James Ivory's delusions. Sends proof that ten is an even number.
Returns a book of poetry. His family is at Hastings. Sends a theorem.
Does not like the sound of the bronchitis. Gives a remedy that he found effective. Gives one of his own ciphers.
Has been in a state of collapse all day, but a dose of '02H' has worked wonders. Gives anecdotes of Diogenes and Plato.
Did JH know when he was Master of the Mint that Isaac Newton had introduced a golden quarter-guinea? Most of his family are at Aldeburgh. Does he know Tristram Shandy's sense of proportion? Charles Babbage has become a public benefactor by the passing of the act against barrel organs.
Has a quarter sovereign given him by Thomas Graham. Will mention the coin in Notes and Queries. Gives a pun on his own name. Anecdote of rain in India when his father and mother were travelling.
Regarding the antiquity of the + and - signs. Origin of quid vides.
Hears that JH sits in his study with a stove. This is unhealthy for anyone with bronchial tendencies.
JH expressed himself with great precision in the old Discourses. Concerning one of the publications of the B.A.A.S.