From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1853
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.131
Summary:
JH looking for some writings by Isaac Newton while at the Mint, but most of that seems to have vanished.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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JH looking for some writings by Isaac Newton while at the Mint, but most of that seems to have vanished.
Asks for the experience of other countries in introducing decimal coinage.
Thanks for AD's report on coinage [see JH's 1853-4-11], and for AD's puns.
JH's copy of Apollonius's work on conic sections was given to Francis Baily. [P. L. M. de] Maupertuis's letter to [James] Bradley is 'real prize.' Comment on AD's puns. Finds W. R. Hamilton's Quaternions 'horribly metaphysical.'