From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[15 July 1849]
Source of text:
Univ. of London Library
Summary:
Thanks for present of Thomas Wright's books [An Original Theory of the Universe, 1750]. Finds it curious. Suggests that it is conceptually as distant from 1849 as the ancients were from it. Praises printing of its plates.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project