From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[15 June 1838]
Source of text:
TCD 4015:96
Summary:
Comments and expands on James MacCullagh's paper on laws of reflection and polarization in crystals.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Comments and expands on James MacCullagh's paper on laws of reflection and polarization in crystals.
Pleased that the Royal Irish Academy awarded its Science Medal to James MacCullagh for his paper on the "Laws of Crystalline Reflexion and Refraction;" he deems MacCullagh's essay superior to WH's "On Algebra as the Science of Pure Time.","L