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L650

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Marguerite Carron (femme de François Carron)
Date:
4 janvier 1824
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1943), p. 936-937.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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L651

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Jean-Jacques Ampère (fils d'Ampère)
Date:
26 janvier 1824
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 640-641-642-643.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

RS-MM-000952

From:
Fearon Fallows
To:
John Barrow
Date:
10 January 1824
Source of text:
MM/15/3, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday0215

From:
Taylor Combe
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 January 1824
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0216

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Henry Vivian
Date:
24 January 1824
Source of text:
NLW VP A.187
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0217

From:
Robert Byers
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 January 1824
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4689u

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
1824
Source of text:
Lyell (1825), 95
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10280

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.163
Summary:

Had no report he could offer the Astronomical Society. Outlines the situation in Chile. Hopes to arrange the material on his recent voyages in the form of a book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11129

From:
Mrs. Mary Frances Kater
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.19
Summary:

Many thanks for his beautiful ballad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11337

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Joseph Johann Littrow
Date:
[25 January 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.245
Summary:

Approves of the plan for the observatory. Comments on some of the features. Good equatorial is a necessity. Will try to obtain a copy of the plan of the Cambridge Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12361

From:
William Edward Parry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.218
Summary:

Regrets delay in answering JH's communication, but was away from Bath when the letter arrived. Interested in the extraordinary local attraction observed by Mr. Duncan in 1791. Gives locations of three such situations in his recent voyage. Comments on the use of Peter Barlow's plate. Will write to Barlow before his next voyage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12698

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
1824
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0112; Reel 1054
Summary:

Letter to [Edinburgh Philosophical] Journal calling attention to 1809 article by [Paul] Erman of Berlin, which some say anticipated JH's 1824 Bakerian lecture on 'Motions produced in fluid conductors when transmitting the Electric current.' JH compares both papers, admits Erman's priority on some theoretical points but claims originality for JH's experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13506

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1824 to 1848]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0743; Reel 1089
Summary:

Received [?]'s inquiry of 1 Feb. Lists all biographical notices pertaining to William Herschel. Comments in detail on biography and philosophy of WH in David Brewster's Edinburgh Review.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14841

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Giuseppe Piazzi
Date:
1824
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Defends William Herschel's views against charges of hostility to religion. Describes his father as 'a sincere believer in, and worshipper of, a benevolent, intelligent, and superintending Deity....","L

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2881

From:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.372
Summary:

Will forward Astronomische Nachrichten to JH and Astronomical Society. Comments on quality of [Joseph] Fraunhofer's micrometer, which has only the wires illuminated. [C. F.] Gauss uses a theodolite to determine the angle of the telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4536

From:
Joseph Planta
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1824 to 1827?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.166
Summary:

Regrets missing JH's visit. Refers JH to [Charles] König for admission to Department of Natural History at the British Museum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4635

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 January 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.19
Summary:

Requesting information of the dispersion of rays in Crown and Flint glass.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5246

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[18 January 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.192
Summary:

Regarding the First Assistant at Greenwich Observatory, and the possibility of JH ever becoming Astronomer Royal. Hopes to see him on Wednesday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel587

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[31 January 1824]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.4
Summary:

Sends GA information about indices of refraction in different glasses and in different parts of the spectrum; also recommends the writings of Josef Fraunhofer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7402

From:
William Smith Williams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1824 or later]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 6/2.1 verso; Reel 8
Summary:

Packets will be sent Saturday by Smith, Elder & Co., so that the one for [Caroline] Herschel will not be late for Mr. Köhler.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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