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From:
Giovanni Antonio Plana
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.427
Summary:

Is concerned to discover if the various packages of memoirs that GP sent have been received by JH. Talks about coming to London to present several papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Giovanni Antonio Plana
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 October 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.428
Summary:

Is preparing to observe the occultation of Aldebaran. Seeks JH's comments on GP's position on the perturbations of Jupiter and Saturn compared to P. S. Laplace's work on the same subject. Comments further on the sending and receiving of packages of memoirs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Giovanni Antonio Plana
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 June 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.429
Summary:

Pleased to hear that JH received GP's memoirs. Comments on the nature of GP's response to an error on one of GP's memoirs on planetary perturbations. Expresses sorrow at the deaths of W. H. Wollaston, Humphry Davy, and Thomas Young.

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John Herschel Project