From:
Henry Peter Brougham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.308
Summary:
Would like JH's view on Thomas Maclear.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Would like JH's view on Thomas Maclear.
Praises in very strong terms and in detail the contributions to astronomy made by Thomas Maclear. Believes Maclear deserves a pension.
Would like, if he can lay his hands on it, a paper of John Dalton's on the defect of vision.
[Responding to HB's 1854-3-2], JH states that no manuscript accompanied the collection of colored silks sent to JH by John Dalton. Describes the collection and discusses 'idioptic vision.'
Expresses thanks and praise for HB's Analytical View of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia [London, 1855].