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From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.274 (C: Académie belgique: #54)
Summary:

Thanks JH for his positive judgement of his work. Mentions that [François] Moigno could only say that it was anti-religious. Another work on statistics has emerged: Versuch einer Sozialethik, 2nd. vol., by Alexander von Ochingen. In few days leaves for international conference on statistics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7886

From:
Thomas Warner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.89
Summary:

Requests permission to print JH's response approving of fixed-telescope system for time-keeping set out in TW's new book on civil time-keeping, How to Keep the Clock Right.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8722

From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.115
Summary:

Accepts JH's objection to his method of measuring stellar diameters. Quotes an argument he had published suggesting the existence of a hierarchy of systems in an infinite universe. Discusses his studies of the relation of proper motions to the sun's motion. Asks JH's permission to publish JH's idea that some nebulae may be 'miniature' of the Milky Way.

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John Herschel Project
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