From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.164
Summary:
Sends JH proceedings of Mathematical Society of London and asks JH to join.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Sends JH proceedings of Mathematical Society of London and asks JH to join.
No mention of Emmanuel Liais's L'espace céleste in English journals. Contact London publishers to find translator for it. Alexander Herschel is now professor of natural philosophy at Andersonian Institution in Glasgow. Hopes JB's elegant method of measuring gravity by torsion will not die before being put into practice.