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Herschel5144

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1818-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.93
Summary:

Cannot help him with the Commercium epistolicum [by Pierre Fermat]. Leaving town for a few days. Regarding the kaleidoscope.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel5143

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[26 April 1818]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.92 (C: RS:HS 20.54)
Summary:

Please send the third volume of J. E. Montucla's Histoire de mathématiques. Is running into difficulties with his history of mathematics owing to lack of translations. Regarding kaleidoscopes. Has been reading David Brewster's experiments on Mother of pearl.

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John Herschel Project
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