From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1818]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.98
Summary:
Wants his support for his own application for a post on the Board of Longitude.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Wants his support for his own application for a post on the Board of Longitude.
When he comes up to town would he please bring Biot's work. Wants to show JH a paper on series. Has just had a visit from Edward Sabine, newly returned from Greenland.
Welcome back to London. Explain CB's demonstration of 'theorem in transcendental arithmetic.' JH's observations of 'new acid' [hyposulfurous] and optical phenomena in 'chrystals of nitre.'