From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 May 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.339
Summary:
T. M. Brisbane is in town. Can JH meet him? JH's computations of definite integrals are simpler, more direct than P. S. Laplace's and more conclusive than Leonhard Euler's. Comments on W. H. F. Talbot's letters demonstrating Josef Fraunhofer's theorem.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project